United Food Group California Ground Beef Recall
Update to the information below: On June 5, the Arizona Department of Health Services issued a press release announcing that 4 cases of E. coli O157:H7 in Arizona have been linked to the ground beef recalled by United Food Group LLC. Supervalue's Save-A-Lot stores in Arizona are involved in this recall. Fred Pritzker is currently representing several victims of a foodborne illness outbreak in Arizona and is investigaing this E. coli outbreak. If you have been sickened after eating ground beef, contact food poisoning attorney Fred Pritzker at 1-888-377-8900.]
United Food Group LLC, a California firm, has recalled about 75,000 pounds of ground beef due to possible contamination with E. coli. This is the second E. coli-related California ground beef recall in just over a month. The first California ground beef recall occurred on April 20 and involved almost 108,000 pounds of ground beef.
The ground beef involved in this recall was shipped to retail distribution centers in Arizona, California, Colorado, Oregon and Utah. The labels of the recalled ground beef bear the establishment number "EST. 1241" inside the USDA mark of inspection or printed on the package. All of the products bear a sell by date of "May/06/07," a freeze by date of "May/07/07" or a produced on date of "April/20/07." Products subject to recall include:
- 10-pound casings of "MORAN'S All Natural, 73/27 fine ground beef."
- 10-pound casings of "MORAN'S All Natural, 90/10 fine ground sirloin."
- 2-pound chubs of "INTER-AMERICAN PRODUCTS 93/7 ground beef."
- 1-pound chubs of "INTER-AMERICAN PRODUCTS 80/20 ground beef."
- 1-pound chubs of "MORAN'S All Natural 73/27 ground beef."
- 5-pound chubs of "MORAN'S All Natural 73/27 ground beef."
- 3-pound chubs of "MORAN'S All Natural 73/27 ground beef."
- 1-pound chubs of "MORAN'S All Natural, 90/10 fine ground sirloin."
- 2-pound chubs of "MORAN'S All Natural 93/7 ground beef."
- 2-pound chubs of "MORAN'S All Natural 96/4 ground beef."
- 3-pound chubs of "STATER BROS. MARKETS 73/27 ground beef."
The contaminated meat was sold at the following stores: Albertson's in California, Idaho, Montana, Nevada, North Dakota, Oregon, Utah, Washington and Wyoming and in Save-A-Lot Stores in Arizona, California and Nevada. Other stores where the contaminated meat could have been sold at are: Grocery Outlet, Fry's Save-Mart, Smart and Final, and Smith's and Stater Bros. stores.
Fred Pritzker, a leading E. coli litigation lawyer, is monitoring this recall. To contact the firm, please call toll-free at 1-888-377-8900 or submit the firm's online consultation form.
