They sold Target 5 that ground beef on several different days, over different months. In all, we bought 15 packages of ground beef, nine contained pork. We want to stress we do not know how the pork got in the ground beef. So we pulled the health inspection reports for the last two years. Combined, the stores were cited for twelve violations that relate to cleanliness in their meat departments, including cutting boards and knives not being cleaned, the floor near the meat grinder not clean of spillage and meat trays that accumulated dried blood and soil, a fairly normal part of any meat business, store owners say.
Health inspectors say no.
But they also say they've never checked because no one has ever complained, until now. We should point out the stores are not operated by the IGA Corporation. In fact, all three stores recently got new owners. They told Eyewitness News 5 they'd fix the problem. A week later Target 5 checked up on that.