Claim: Recall: Nearly 57 tons of ground beef for possible E coli.
Verdict: SUPPORTS

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title: Ground beef
text: this product became a component in ground beef used by McDonald's, Burger King and many other fast-food chains as well as grocery chains in the U.S. In government and industry records in testing for the school lunch program, pathogens such as "E. coli" and salmonella were found dozens of times in meat from BPI, which raises questions about safety of the meat product and the effectiveness of the antimicrobial method used in meat recovery system of the company. Between 2005 and 2009, "E. coli" was found three times and salmonella 48 times. BPI had a rate of 36 positives for

title: Escherichia coli O157:H7
text: be undercooked ground beef but also leafy vegetables. Fields often get contaminated with the bacterium through irrigation processes or contaminated water naturally entering the soil. It is highly virulent, with a low infectious dose: an inoculation of fewer than 10 to 100 CFU of "E. coli" O157:H7 is sufficient to cause infection, compared to over one-million CFU for other pathogenic "E. coli" strains. A stool culture can detect the bacterium, although it is not a routine test and so must be specifically requested. The sample is cultured on sorbitol-MacConkey (SMAC) agar, or the variant cefixime potassium tellurite sorbitol-MacConkey agar (CT-SMAC).

title: Topps Meat Company
text: of frozen hamburgers." In 2007 the company ceased operations following (E. coli) contamination of products and the ensuing recall. According to the "New York Times": 21.7 million pounds of frozen ground beef products produced between September 25, 2006, and September 25, 2007, by the Topps Meat Company were recalled in September 2007 due to contamination concerns. At the time, this was the second-largest beef recall in U.S. history, after Hudson Foods Company's recall of 25 million pounds of ground beef in 1997. Product samples subsequently tested positive for contamination with E. coli. The first reported case of illness linked to

title: Cargill
text: had become sick from ground beef being recalled by Cargill Beef. The 10 became sick between June 6 and June 26. Three were hospitalized, and all recovered, according to health officials. Hannaford Supermarkets alerted consumers that Cargill Beef was voluntarily recalling 29,339 pounds of ground beef that might contain salmonella. The 85%-lean ground beef was produced at Cargill's plant in Wyalusing, Pennsylvania, on May 25, 2012, and repackaged for sale to consumers by customers of the Kansas-based company. In 2003, Cargill completed a port for processing soya in Santarém in the Amazon region of Brazil, dramatically increasing soya production in

title: Beef Products
text: had complained that the product tasted and smelled like ammonia, after which the company devised a plan to make a less alkaline version. The USDA determined that at least some of BPI's product was no longer receiving "the full lethality treatment." NYT reported that BPI's products had tested positive for E. coli three times and salmonella 48 times since 2005. This prompted the USDA to revoke the exemption and conduct a review of the company's practices. In July 2011, after widespread coverage of an unrelated linked to sprouts, Beef Products Inc. began voluntarily testing its beef products for six additional

title: 1993 Jack in the Box E. coli outbreak
text: federal standard of . Had Jack in the Box followed the state cooking standard, the outbreak would have been prevented, according to court documents and experts from the Washington State Health Department. Subsequent investigation by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) identified five slaughterhouses in the United States and one in Canada as "the likely sources of [...] the contaminated lots of meat." In February 1998, Foodmaker agreed to accept $58.5 million from Vons and eight other beef suppliers to settle the lawsuit started in 1993. A total of 171 people required hospitalization. The majority of the victims

title: Topps Meat Company
text: from the largest U.S. manufacturer of frozen hamburgers to a company that cannot overcome the economic reality of a recall this large," Anthony D'Urso, chief operating officer, said in a statement. USDA's first positive test results for E. coli contamination came back September 7, 2007, but they waited for confirming tests before ordering a recall 18 days later. Criticism of that 18-day delay in seeking the recall of millions of pounds of tainted Topps Meat ground beef caused the USDA to promise to speed up warnings about contaminated meat in the future. As of October 7, 2007, 29 people in

title: 2006 North American E. coli O157:H7 outbreaks
text: the menu. By mid-December 2006, both green onions and McLane Company had been eliminated as possible sources of the Taco Bell contamination. Taco Bell's tainted lettuce was later traced, via packaging, to farms in the Central Valley of California, although no specific sources have been made public. Later in December 2006, Iowa and Minnesota health officials investigated an "E. coli" outbreak that was traced to foods served at Taco John's restaurants in Cedar Falls, Iowa and Albert Lea and Austin, Minnesota. As of December 13, 2006, the Iowa Department of Health had confirmed that at least 50 Iowans had become

title: Ground beef
text: seasoned, it is popular as a main course and as a dressing in Belgium, where it is known as filet américain ("American fillet"). Food safety of ground meat issues occur because of the possibility of bacterial contamination. Undercooked hamburgers contaminated with were responsible for four deaths and the illness of hundreds of people in the U.S. in 1993. Ground beef must be cooked to 72 °C (160 °F) to ensure all bacterial contamination—whether it be endogenous to the product or contaminated after purchasing by the consumer—is killed. The color of cooked meat does not always indicate the beef has reached

title: Pink slime
text: the past year, 6% was LFTB. An analysis of California Department of Education data indicated that "anywhere from none to nearly 3 million pounds of beef from the USDA that was served in California schools last year could have contained lean finely textured beef". According to the USDA, the cost differential between ground beef with and without the additive has been estimated at approximately 3%. On September 13, 2012, BPI announced that it filed a $1.2 billion lawsuit, "Beef Products, Inc. v. American Broadcasting Companies, Inc.," against ABC News; three reporters (Diane Sawyer, Jim Avila and David Kerley) and others,

title: 2006 North American E. coli O157:H7 outbreaks
text: ranged from November 20 to December 6. On December 7, 2006, an initial investigation attributed the outbreak to green onions, which had been supplied to the Taco Bell restaurants by a single McLane Company distribution center in Burlington Township, New Jersey. Tainted green onions may have proven a ready culprit in part because of their involvement in at least one widely reported prior outbreak of "E. coli". In 2003, green onions were suspected as the cause of a foodborne illness involving the Chi-Chi's restaurant chain in western Pennsylvania that killed 4 people and sickened 660. After further investigation, Taco Bell

title: 2006 North American E. coli O157:H7 outbreak in spinach
text: to organic bagged fresh spinach—sold as conventional produce—grown on a farm in San Benito County, California. Investigators with the Centers for Disease Control initially speculated that the dangerous strain of bacteria, , originated from irrigation water contaminated with cattle feces or from grazing deer. A follow-up report by the CDC and a joint report by the California Department of Health Services (CDHS) and U.S. FDA concluded that the probable source of the outbreak was Paicines Ranch, an Angus cattle ranch that had leased land to spinach grower Mission Organics. The report found 26 samples of "E. coli" "indistinguishable from the

title: 2006 North American E. coli O157:H7 outbreak in spinach
text: the FBI has launched a criminal investigation into this matter. On October 9, 2006, a popular brand of lettuce grown in California's Salinas Valley, the region at the center of the nationwide spinach scare has been recalled over concerns about "E. coli" contamination. On October 26, 2006, some of the largest grocery chains, including Vons, Albertsons, Ralphs and others, sent a letter to the farmer's associations, giving them 6 weeks to come up with a plan to prevent problems like the E. coli breakout from happening again. The overall toll of the spinach incident was 199 people in 28 states

title: Chipotle Mexican Grill
text: Prevention (CDC) had reported that the number of persons reported ill had risen to 40 known cases and that the bacteria samples taken from 7 infected persons in Washington and 3 persons in Oregon states were confirmed to be infected by the same strain of "E. coli", the Shiga toxin-producing STEC O26 strain, as determined by DNA profiling. At least 12 persons required hospitalization, but no fatalities. As of November 2015, Health authorities were still trying to trace the exact source of the bacterial contamination, but suspected fresh produce. On November 12, the CDC increased the number of known cases

title: Yukhoe
text: concern. But only by freshness of beef, the risk can be reduced. In April and May 2011, five people died and more than 35 people were hospitalised after eating "yukke" (Japanese spelling) made from beef not designated for raw consumption in various branches of a "bulgogi" restaurant chain in Toyama and Kanagawa prefectures, Japan, with enterohemorrhagic "E. coli" bacteria found in many of the cases. As a result, the Japanese Ministry of Health, Labor and Welfare (MHLW) has developed new regulations to require cooking the surface 1 cm deep to further reduce contamination. On October 22, the last hospitalized 14

title: 2006 North American E. coli O157:H7 outbreaks
text: 2006 North American E. coli O157:H7 outbreaks In 2006, there were several outbreaks of foodborne illness from spinach and lettuce contaminated by . The initial outbreak occurred in September 2006 and its probable origin was an Angus cattle ranch that had leased land to a spinach grower (growing under organic practices). At least 205 consumer illnesses and 3 deaths have been attributed to the tainted produce. In December 2006, Taco Bell restaurants in four Northeastern states emerged as a common link among 71 sickened people across five states, 52 of whom were ultimately confirmed by the Centers for Disease Control

title: 2006 North American E. coli O157:H7 outbreak in spinach
text: Mann, Mills Family Farm, Premium Fresh, Snoboy, The Farmer's Market, Tanimura & Antle, President's Choice, Cross Valley, and Riverside Farms. Affected brands from River Ranch include Hy-Vee, Farmer's Market and Fresh and Easy. Later, a third company, RLB Food Distributors, issued a multiple East Coast states recall of spinach-containing salad products for possible "E. coli" contamination. Natural Selection Foods announced on September 18, 2006 that its organic produce had been cleared of contamination by an independent agency, but did not lift the recalls on any of its organic brands. On September 22, Earthbound Farm announced that the FDA and the

title: 2015 United States E. coli outbreak
text: no deaths occurred as a result of the outbreak. This outbreak was therefore the second largest to occur in the U.S. in 2015, behind the far more severe Chipotle outbreak, which totaled about sixty cases. A total of 19 cases of "E. coli" linked to the outbreak were reported, throughout seven states: California, Colorado, Missouri, Montana, Utah, Virginia, and Washington. Recalls of Costco rotisserie chicken salad, which was deemed the source of the outbreak, occurred throughout the entire United States, with Costco claiming to have removed all infected products by November 20, 2015. The epidemiologic evidence collected during the outbreak

title: XL Foods
text: made more stringent. The plant was processing between 2000 and 5000 cattle per day, representing approximately one-third of Canada's 2012 beef slaughtering capacity. According to American regulators and the CFIA, testing practices in place at the plant were not stringent enough to protect consumers from the "E. coli" contamination. The incident was also linked to increased production at the plant during the time when the "E. coli" was detected. A total of 18 confirmed cases of infection with "E. coli" O157:H7 were reported during the subsequent outbreak linked to XL Foods. On October 18, 2012, it was announced that the

title: 1993 Jack in the Box E. coli outbreak
text: who presented symptoms and were clinically diagnosed (but not hospitalized) were children under 10 years old. Of the infected children 45 required hospitalization—38 suffered serious kidney problems and 21 required dialysis. Four children died: Sen. Richard Durbin (D-IL), addressing a congressional hearing on food safety in 2006, described the outbreak as "a pivotal moment in the history of the beef industry." James Reagan, vice president of Research and Knowledge Management at the National Cattlemen's Beef Association (NCBA), said that the outbreak was "significant to the industry" and "the initiative that moved us further down the road [of food safety] and