JBS Swift expands beef recall ten-fold

JBS Swift has expanded its June 24th voluntary recall of 41-thousand pounds of beef products. On Sunday, the FSIS announced that an additional 380-thousand pounds of assorted beef primal products that “may” be contaminated with E. coli (0157:H7) and distributed nationally and internationally were recalled. JBS says it is expanding the recall “out of an abundance of caution” after the CDC confirmed two-dozen illnesses in “multiple” states – with 18 of those illnesses likely associated with the recalled beef.JBS Swift told Brownfield last week that it learned after the fact that there was a breakdown on the production line April 21st at its Greeley, Colorado plant in which some of the meat should have been pulled off the line. JBS says some of the products in the recall, which were whole muscle cuts of beef, were further processed into ground beef by retailers that purchased it.

The E. coli was found in a routine sample at a retail location.

JBS says it has contacted the stores that bought the meat and is leaving it to them whether to publicize it. FSIS says: consumers with questions regarding the recall should call the company’s Consumer Hotline at 1-800-685-6328.

In the initial recall, JBS identified 13 states where the recalled meat was distributed: Illinois, Nebraska, Wisconsin and South Carolina – also – Arizona, California, Colorado, Florida, Michigan, Minnesota, Oregon, Tennessee, Utah.

FSIS – JBS Swift beef recall

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