Food safety recall round-up 4-10 August 2017
Possible E. coli O26 in beef
US: Good Food Concepts is recalling 1,290 pounds of raw intact and non-intact beef because it may be contaminated with E. coli O26.
Beef items were processed and packaged on August 3 and 4 and were shipped to retail, wholesale and restaurants in Colorado Springs. Click here for products subject to the recall.
The problem was discovered when plant management at Good Food Concepts notified FSIS in-plant inspection personnel that they tested a production lot of carcasses from the Callicrate Ranch on July 31. The carcass trimmings were positive for non-O157 STEC serogroup O26.
Many clinical laboratories do not test for non-O157 Shiga toxin-producing E. coli (STEC), such as STEC O26 because it is harder to identify than STEC O157, said the US Department of Agriculture’s Food Safety and Inspection Service (USDA-FSIS).
FSIS and the company are concerned that some product may be frozen and in consumers' freezers.