Beef recall!! Walmart/Safeway/CostCo

[KrazE]

http://www.ottawasun.com/2012/09/17/...-contamination

[FallenPixels]

The Canadian Food Inspection Agency issued a warning Monday about various beef products that have been recalled due to possible contamination with E. coli.

The meat was used in products like burgers, meatloaf and sliders under the Kirkland Signature and Safeway brands, sold all over Canada. Edmonton-based XL Foods manufactures the products.

The following products, made from beef voluntarily recalled by XL Foods (Est. 38), are affected by this alert:

Brand	Product	Size	UPC	Codes / Dates	Distribution
Calahoo Meats	4/1 B.B. Burgers	4.54 kg	Item 0200525	Lot 2244	Alberta
Kirkland Signature	Lean ground beef 15% fat or less	Various	Starts with 2 21927	Pack On Dates between 12AU30 and 12SE15	National
Kirkland Signature	Lean ground beef patties / 15% fat or less	Various	Starts with 2 52733	Pack On Dates between 12AU30 and 12SE15	National
Kirkland Signature	Ground beef tube 86% lean full case / Manual weight	Various	Starts with 2 97420	Pack On Dates between 12AU30 and 12SE15	National
Safeway	Ground Beef Regular	Various	Starts with 201637	EST 573 Best Before or Freeze By dates between 12SE09 and 12SE23	Manitoba, Ontario, Saskatchewan
Safeway	Ground Beef Lean	Various	Starts with 201670	EST 573 Best Before or Freeze By dates between 12SE09 and 12SE23	Manitoba, Ontario, Saskatchewan
Safeway	Ground Beef Lean Large Pack	Various	Starts with 201654	EST 573 Best Before or Freeze By dates between 12SE09 and 12SE23	Manitoba, Ontario, Saskatchewan
Safeway	Lean Ground Beef Patties Fresh	Various	Starts with 201650	EST 573 Best Before or Freeze By dates between 12SE09 and 12SE23	Manitoba, Ontario, Saskatchewan
Safeway	Medium Ground Beef Chuck	Various	Starts with 201730	EST 573 Best Before or Freeze By dates between 12SE09 and 12SE23	Manitoba, Ontario, Saskatchewan
Safeway	Ground Beef Extra Lean	Various	Starts with 201681	EST 573 Best Before or Freeze By dates between 12SE09 and 12SE23	Manitoba, Ontario, Saskatchewan
Safeway	Ground Beef Extra Lean Large Pack	Various	Starts with 201661	EST 573 Best Before or Freeze By dates between 12SE09 and 12SE23	Manitoba, Ontario, Saskatchewan
Safeway	MS Lean Ground Beef Patties Sundried Tomato & Asiago Cheese	Various	Starts with 209544	Best Before dates between 12AU29 and 12SE19	Alberta, British Columbia, Manitoba, Ontario, Saskatchewan
Safeway	MS Lean Beef Patties Cheddar Cheese	Various	Starts with 209553	Best Before dates between 12AU29 and 12SE19	Alberta, British Columbia, Manitoba, Ontario, Saskatchewan
Safeway	MS Lean Ground Beef Meatloaf	Various	Starts with 209289	Best Before dates between 12AU29 and 12SE19	Alberta, British Columbia, Manitoba, Ontario, Saskatchewan
Safeway	MS Lean Ground Beef Sliders	Various	Starts with 209893	Best Before dates between 12AU29 and 12SE19	Alberta, British Columbia, Manitoba, Ontario, Saskatchewan
Safeway	MS Meatballs – Made from lean ground beef and pork	Various	Starts with 209241	Best Before dates between 12AU29 and 12SE19	Alberta, British Columbia, Manitoba, Ontario, Saskatchewan
Safeway	MS Beef Lean Ground Stuffed Peppers	Various	Starts with 209628	Best Before dates between 12AU29 and 12SE19	Alberta, British Columbia, Manitoba, Ontario, Saskatchewan
Safeway	MS Ground Sirloin Patties	Various	Starts with 201674	Best Before dates between 12AU29 and 12SE19	Alberta, British Columbia, Manitoba, Ontario, Saskatchewan
Safeway	Lean Ground Beef	Various	Starts with 221643	Best Before dates between 12AU29 and 12SE19	Alberta, British Columbia
Safeway	Extra Lean Ground Beef	Various	Starts with 221670	Best Before dates between 12AU29 and 12SE19	Alberta, British Columbia
Safeway	Regular Ground Beef	Various	Starts with 221634	Best Before dates between 12AU29 and 12SE19	Alberta, British Columbia
Safeway	Ground Chuck	Various	Starts with 201637	Best Before dates between 12AU29 and 12SE19	Alberta, British Columbia
None	Regular Ground Beef	454 g 1 lb	0 27182 04350 2	EST 128 Sep/17/12 Sep/18/12 Sep/20/12	Walmart stores in Alberta, British Columbia, Manitoba and Saskatchewan
None	Medium Ground Beef	1.36 kg 3 lb	0 27182 04367 0	EST 128 Sep/18/12	Walmart stores in Alberta, British Columbia, Manitoba and Saskatchewan
None	Lean Ground Beef	454 g 1 lb	0 27182 04373 1	EST 128 Sep/17/12 Sep/20/12	Walmart stores in Alberta, British Columbia, Manitoba and Saskatchewan
None	Beef Bearpaw Burger 5oz	5.10 kg	6 26957 83655 6	EST 128 Pack Date Sep 07, 2012	Alberta

[Natalka]

Glad we have none of these.

[coyote00]

Oyyyyyyy Veyyyyy, I buy my ground beef from safeway and need to start digging through my freezer . Thank you so much for the post.

[Poirot]

Thanks for the post.I bought ground beef at Safeway checked to see if they were okay and they were fortunately.

[MortgageQueen]

Thanks KrazE and FP for great info.!

[lekate]

This is why cows should not be fed corn! Stop supporting this practice!!! Buy GRASS fed only! Don't be fooled by the marketing in stores, corn is so bad for cows and us.

E. coli 0157:H7 has only recenty appeared on the scene. First isolated in the 1980s, this pathogen is now found in the intestines of most U.S. feedlot cattle. The practice of feeding corn and other grains to cattle has created the perfect conditions for microbes to come into being that can harm and kill us. As Michael Pollan explains:

“Most of the microbes that reside in the gut of a cow and find their way into our food get killed off by the acids in our stomachs, since they originally adapted to live in a neutral-pH environment. But the digestive tract of the modern feedlot cow is closer in acidity to our own, and in this new, manmade environment acid-resistant strains of E. coli have developed that can survive our stomach acids — and go on to killl us. By acidifying a cow’s gut with corn, we have broken down one of our food chain’s barriers to infections.”

From: http://www.johnrobbins.info/blog/grass-fed-beef/


http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontl...ws/pollan.html

[Natalka]

Gah, about the ground beef - I always buy the big packs, then repackage them, so I had to think really, really hard about the dates. I suppose maybe I should check past receipts, I should have them.
I buy ground beef only at Sobey's or Co-op - but haven't bought any in Sept. - mind you some of those dates go back into Aug.

From now on, I'm going to label with the date and store bought when I repackage!

[Natalka]

expanded - FP posted in chat thread

http://inspection.gc.ca/english/corp...120917be.shtml

[coyote00]

I have matching UPC's and EST's on all of mine. The freeze/use by dates don't match. I think I will rid of them just in case why would I chance it

[FallenPixels]

It was expanded even more, including US stores too

[Lynn49]

expanded - FP posted in chat thread

http://inspection.gc.ca/english/corp...120917be.shtml

Why are the Costco brands not listed? Did I miss something, Natalka?
Ah...nevermind, I see it in the original link.....thanks, Natalka!

Thank you KrazE, FP...nothing here, thank goodness.....nope...hold your horses...we did re-package lean ground beef from Costco! So naturally we don't have the label....what to do? I can't remember when we did it, but it wasn't long ago..

.I think there's one pkg left...I guess it's getting tossed..although we did have the other two re-packaged ones? What to do??!!!

[Natalka]

bump

[FallenPixels]

Costco can check your history to see when you bought it

[Lynn49]

Thank you, FP....it wasn't more than a couple of weeks ago...but we did eat the other 2 packages of the 3 I separated...and we're fine....but I will ask hubby to go there and find out if it's part of the stock we're to pitch.
Thank you! Oh! I can also check our Amex!