Food: November 2007 Archives

This time it's ground beef:

MINNEAPOLIS - Cargill Inc. said Saturday it is recalling more than 1 million pounds of ground beef that may be contaminated with E. coli bacteria, the second time in less than a month it has voluntarily recalled beef that may have been tainted.

The recall covers ten states - Connecticut, Maine, Maryland, Massachusetts, Michigan, New Jersey, New York, Ohio, Pennsylvania and Virginia.

No wonder squirrel is so popular in New Jersey.

Here's a press release from Stop and Shop with more details, and here's one from Giant Eagle.

And here's the press release from Cargill.

For our New Jersey readers!

Since, after all, they're currently celebrating the declaration that squirrels are now safe to eat - oh, and opossum and raccoon season is here, too.

So if you're out back grilling a little furry acorn eater by the cement pond, here's to ya!

This time it's frozen pizza:

"CHICAGO (Reuters) - Almost five million Totino's and Jeno's frozen pizzas with pepperoni toppings are being recalled because the pepperoni may be contaminated with E. coli, General Mills Inc said on Thursday.

General Mills, which owns the Totino's and Jeno's brands, said the recall affects about 414,000 cases of pizza products currently in stores and all similar pizza products that might be in consumers' freezers. Each case contains 12 pizzas.

The possible E. coli contamination was uncovered by state and federal authorities investigating 21 E. coli-related illnesses in 10 states."

Are there more of these incidents because of a decline in quality and care from food manufacturers or is it because we have better capabilities to detect and investigate these things?