FSIS Again Expands Public Health Alert on Canadian Beef from XL Foods
The Food Safety and Inspection Service again expanded the Public Health Alert for XL Foods (Canadian Establishment 038) to include all beef and beef products produced on Aug. 24, 27, 28, 29 and Sept. 5, in response to XL Foods’ expansion of its recall. Products subject to the recall include, but are not limited to, steaks, roasts, mechanically tenderized steaks and roasts, and ground beef.
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Beef from cattle slaughtered during the period associated with the recall was produced under insanitary conditions that resulted in a high event period (a period when the trim from carcasses exhibited an unusually high frequency of positive findings for the possible presence of E. coli O157:H7), FSIS said. All products produced on the affected dates are considered adulterated and must be either destroyed or verified as having received a full lethality treatment.
(See ITT’s Online Archives 12092124 for summary of the original Public Health Alert, and 12092620 for the previous expansion on Sept. 26.)