meat recall

    By Bob Cesca

    | 9:00AM 12/30/2009
    The most under-reported news item from the Christmas weekend was the recall of 248,000 pounds of factory beef due to E. Coli O157:H7 contamination. The USDA reports that the source of the poisoned beef is National Steak and Poultry, a meat processing company out of Owasso, Oklahoma. There's no...

    By Mitch Lipka

    | 6:30PM 11/02/2009
    After two deaths and more than two dozen people taking ill from E.coli, the U.S. Department of Agriculture is recalling 545,699 pounds of fresh ground beef products sold from Maine to North Carolina. The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention along with health and agriculture departments...