Food Safety Recall round-up 2-8 June 2018
Plastic in ground beef
US: Goodman Food Products is recalling 34,400 pounds of fully cooked ground beef that may be contaminated with hard, white plastic.
The frozen, fully cooked ground beef patty and crumble items were produced on 2 August 2017, said the US Department of Agriculture’s Food Safety and Inspection Service (USDA-FSIS).
Products were purchased by USDA Foods for the National School Lunch Program (NLSP) and were shipped to institutional locations in Maine and Connecticut.
The problem was found after the firm and USDA’s Agricultural Marketing Services received consumer complaints about hard, white plastic in the fully cooked ground beef products. There have been no confirmed reports of injuries.
40-lb. cases of “Don Lee Farms Fully Cooked Beef Patty Crumbles” lot code 5886A7214, case code CNG36100 and “Best if used within” date 2 August 2018 and 40-lb. cases of “Don Lee Farms Fully Cooked Homestyle Beef Patty” lot code 5886A7214, case code CNG38220 and the same date are affected.