Where’s the Beef Been?

The company behind last Friday’s government recall of ground beef patties, which sickened three children with E. Coli bacteria, has some experience with contaminated meat.

In February 2004, Richwood Meat Co, Inc., a Merced, CA firm recalled 90,000 pounds of beef patties that had been linked to illnesses at U.S. military installations in Japan. The USDA alert for this recall described a high risk to health.

And in 1998, the company recalled 3,900 pounds of beef patties after receiving some consumer complaints, including one from someone who’d been injured by eating the meat.

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