60 Tons of Ground Beef Recalled – IOTW Report

60 Tons of Ground Beef Recalled

CTH: Recalls are not uncommon in the modern food industry. As consumers have shifted toward convenience and increasingly done less food processing in their own kitchens, the opportunity for foodborne illness has expanded. One familiar example would be using bagged, previously processed, salad mixes instead of doing the raw chopping, cleaning and rinsing at home. [The risk is listeria (pink mold) or E.Coli]

A few days ago, when talking about the uptick in industrial accidents, CTH noted, “another downstream consequence could be an uptick in food recalls as an outcome of increased bacteria within the food processing equipment, because the break-down-time, sanitation and hygiene might be impacted by excessive operational run times. 

There’s a myriad of issues from any industrial operation that goes from ordinary capacity to seriously over-stressed maximum capacity… and then remains in the emergency phase for months.”…

Now today: – “Approximately 120,872 pounds of ground beef products have been recalled due to possible E. coli contamination. more

21 Comments on 60 Tons of Ground Beef Recalled

  1. …our sanitation workforce is 90% Islamic.

    This is not uncommon throughout the industry today.

    These are the same folks that wash their donks in urinal water and sometimes regard that as covering their handwashing as well.

    No one, not even Government embedded inspectors, will challenge this, because donk washing is in the Koran.

    So chew on that, along with your burger.

    But it’s OK, the processing kills most of the bugs.

    So that pubic hair you pull out from between your teeth was sterilized too.

    Probably.

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  2. We raised our own pig this past year, just picked it up from the local processor. And then bought two more piglets.

    Adieu, Sir Francis, I’m sure you’ll be delicious.

    Welcome, Tick and Tock. Eat and grow fat.

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  3. …just so you know, GROUND beef is the worst from an FOB standpoint. A CUT of meat like a steak or a chop is actually pretty easy to inspect as there is very little chance that anything can penetrate past the surface, and what DOES penetrate generally sticks out like a Jart in your pet’s head in the middle of the lawn, making identification by an alert inspector or by a consumer who actually LOOKS at what he’s buying easy.

    Ground beef, on the other hand, breaks that surface and mixes up continually and usually has other things like preservatives and spices mixed into it, which not only allows a route of contamination from things like bag scraps and torn bits of glove, but also thoroghly mixes it so if it’s not dense enough to be picked up by X-ray and not metallic enough to be picked up by metal detector, it’s going to end up adding to that unexpected crunch in your burger or that weird lump you just involentarily swallowed.

    Just saying.

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  4. My sister was a registered dietician years back. She took food safety classes and the one about how they made hamburger made her not eat it for over two years!

    She now works with someone who raises a few cattle for slaughter each year. He sells the processed meat and she bought some burger from him. From ONE cow, not thousands like you get in the store!

    Mighty tasty!

    Oh, and the burger from the deer my nephew killed from our prairie? I helped him butcher it and the burger from her is YUMM-EEEEEE!

    Yes, I thanked her for her meat. I am 1/16th Ottawa Indian, after all! Unlike that fake Indian in congress.

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  5. @cheryl April 27, 2022 at 7:36 pm

    > I’m not making a comment until Brian Williams does

    Clara Peller knows where to find 60 tons of beef.
    (stretches waistband of yoga pants)

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