food recall: 185,000 pounds ground turkey – Cargill Meat again
Sunday, September 11th, 2011Cargill Meat Solutions Corporation, a Springdale, Ark. establishment, is recalling approximately 185,000 pounds of ground turkey products that may be contaminated with a strain of Salmonella Heidelberg, the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Food Safety and Inspection Service (FSIS) announced today.
The products were distributed nationwide. TBA – the retail distribution list
According to the recall press release, “The strain of Salmonella Heidelberg in question is identical to that of an outbreak of Salmonellosis that resulted in an August 3, 2011 recall of ground turkey products.
Although a sample tested positive for the outbreak related strain of Salmonella, including the identical XbaI and BlnI PFGE patterns matching the August 3 outbreak strain, at this time, neither FSIS nor the plant is aware of any illnesses associated with product from the above dates. An FSIS incident investigation team collected samples at the establishment following the previous recall. Today’s recall occurred after a product sample collected on August 24 tested positive for the outbreak strain of Salmonella Heidelberg. The firm is recalling product from August 30 based on pending positive match samples. The products subject to recall are derived from bone-in parts.”
Today is September 11 — Why did it take so long to recall?
On August 3, Cargill previously recalled ground turkey when one person died from Salmonella Heidelberg strain; 77 were sickened including two people in Arizona. (those statistics may have changed after the Aug. 3 blog post).
