Safeway beef may have had salmonella contamination, says USDA

by Brian White (Subscribe to Brian White's posts)
Dec 27th 2007 9:11AM

Safeway, one of the larger supermarket chains in the U.S., may have distributed fresh ground beef products to customers in five states that were contaminated with multi-drug resistant Salmonella, said the USDA this week.

The states included in the USDA's report were Arizona, California, Hawaii, Nevada and New Mexico. The potentially contaminated beef products were sold between September 19 and November 5, 2007.

If you purchased fresh beef products from Safeway in those five states in the listed timeframe above -- and perhaps froze them for later use -- you may want to discard of them safely now.

If not frozen, these products have been consumed by now, of course. Still, those who stockpile fresh meat in those larger freezers, take note.

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ray 12-29-2007 @ 7:19AM

we need to watch where we are beef any more and what happen to all nature beef ... you want to see beef go to wal mart an look at there beef ats brown lol

MISS TIZ 12-29-2007 @ 9:28AM

HEY RAY- GROW UP ALREADY!
I HAPPEN TO BE AN EXTREMELY SELECTIVE CUSTOMER REGARDLESS OF WHAT I'M SHOPPING FOR AND FOR YEARS I'VE PURCHASED ALMOST ALL OF MY GROCERIES AT WALMART, NOT BECAUSE I HAVE TO, BUT BECAUSE I WANT TO BECAUSE THEIR QUALITY & PRICE ISN'T SURPASSED!
AS FOR THEIR STAFF- MAJOR PASSIVE AGGRESSIVE ISSUES!

Lee 12-29-2007 @ 9:31AM

Hey all you beef lovers. Stop eating dead cows and start eating real food like dead chickens and fish. Red meat is not good for your health.

Ed 12-29-2007 @ 9:59AM

If you purchased fresh beef products from Safeway in those five states in the listed timeframe above -- and perhaps froze them for later use -- you may want to discard of them safely now.

Oh, and they aren't going to reimburse us for discarding their bad meat?

Carla 12-29-2007 @ 9:47AM

FYI. Miss Tiz... Not all of Walmarts staff, have passive aggressive issues. Some of us work very hard, and strive to meet all of our customers needs. In fact, 1/3 of our customers are rude and aggressive themselves. We are just doing our jobs, when we ask if they need help. Some act as if we were asking for their first born!Cut us off verbally, andgive us a horrible look, or just say NO, without even looking us in the face! Customers need to be more compassionate too. Like me.
If you've met mean Walmart employees, thats bad. Evidently you haven't met me.

Rayz 12-29-2007 @ 10:02AM

I never will buy store ground beef. I bought a home grinder years ago and can easily do my own ground beef.

janus1854 12-29-2007 @ 10:01AM

If you are that afraid of the food you buy, grow your own, process it youself, and store it in your own home.And, better yet, just completely cook the stuff before you eat it. I've never had any trouble with the things I buy from Wal-Mart, nor with many of the employees there. It seems Wal-Mart has become the 'red-headed step-child' of the merchandising family in the past few years.

Carl Tapp 12-29-2007 @ 10:32AM

LEE -- YOU ARE WRONG ! ! ! THE BIBLE GIVES RULES FOR EATING AND INCLUDES BEEF AND LAMB . MANY BACTERIA ARE BECOMING RESISTANT TO ANTIBIOTICS , BUT THERE IS
A SOLUTION . COLLOIDAL SILVER AND IONIC SILVER HAS BEEN PROVEN TO KILL MORE THAN 650 PATHOGENS .
EVERY DAY , YOU CAN SWALLOW A DROPPERFUL OF THESE
SOLUTIONS AND KILL SALMONELLA , GONOCOCCUS, STREP
AND ALL OTHER GERMS . IT WILL NOT AFFECT THE GOOD BACTERIA IN YOUR DIGESTIVE TRACT . HOSPITALS USE SILVER SOLUTIONS ON BURN VICTIMS . CURAD BANDAGES
NOW ARE MADE WITH A SILVER IMPREGNATED PAD . ONE BRAND OF SOCKS FOR MEN HAS SILVER THREADS TO KILL
BACTERIA WHICH CAUSE FOOT ODOR . GET THE PICTURE ?

Frank J. Austin 12-29-2007 @ 12:06PM

Carl Tapp : Silver is a heavy Metal. What about poisoning from the Silver ? No, I am not trying to be an A$$, I am genuinely curious. At any rate, it sounds like one would have to keep track of the silver ingested unless it is effective at such small doses as to not become dangerous. Does the Silver collect in the body with time ?
More info please. FA

DJ4LIFE 12-29-2007 @ 10:34AM

I NEVER HAD ANY PROBLEM WITH ANY OF THE STAFF FROM WAL-MART. IN FACT, THE STAFF ARE VERY HELPFUL.

StimpyInFlorida 12-29-2007 @ 10:47AM

How did Wal*Mart get into this discussion...tried their stuff and at the Casselberry, FL Wal*Mart, it's not good. We have meat markets around the area that grind their meats fresh everyday and when 5:30 p.m. comes ALL of the ground meat is marked down 50% to get it out the door. What isn't purchased is donated to Daily Bread, etc. that evening and it is cooked by the next day for those with less. The meat is never older than 1 day. Using one's brain is how a person can keep from getting sick on garbage ground beef, having their pets poisoned, bad Banquet pot pies, shellfish from China, ad naseum. And the benefit is -- you might die a natural death.

Web 12-29-2007 @ 10:55AM

Bad butchery at food plants causes this. Who would like to do this job anyway.

Web 12-29-2007 @ 10:58AM

COOCKING TIP FOR GROUND BEEF......when you think it is done, cook for 5 more minutes, add water if needed.

LillyOfSisk 12-29-2007 @ 11:02AM

Good thing I don't live in one of those states! My insane daughter and husband eat raw hamburger from Safeway. Neither have ever became ill, but I think I will buy it from our small market called "Nick's" from now on.

I live in Southern Maryland. We have fought to keep Super Walmart out of here, so that smaller businesses have a fighting chance. There isn't one within over 100 miles of my home and I am glad.

DixieRoseW 12-29-2007 @ 12:50PM

I don't know if you got this or not, I live in SoMd as well. There is a Super WalMart in St. Mary's county now. It's not too bad, but the meat it Nick's is better. Costs a bit more, but it is a better grade of meat usually.

Kristen 12-29-2007 @ 11:23AM

well my family does not have to worry about beef recalls because we do not eat it, because of mad cow and they are definetly not healthy for you. and we have lost weight and are now in perfect health.

Lynn 1-05-2008 @ 6:31PM

I work at a walmart in PA..none of us employees will buy the meat. They let go a company because of bad meat, then the company started using a different brand name called SteakHouse meat and now it is selling at walmart. We were happy to get a new supplier then we saw the boxes,,,,same name and company,,,they just put a SteakHouse label on it.

peta_guy 12-29-2007 @ 12:04PM

Serves them right! MEAT is MURDER !
Go VEGGIE!!!

anne 12-29-2007 @ 12:28PM

Miss Tiz & Carla: Walmart is off topic, but I once almost slipped on a spill in Walmart, guarded the spill until a Walmart associate came close to me, told her about the spill, she responded curtly "I'm off!". So I then left my cart to block the spill, went to the greeter in the front and told her about the spill. She promptly got someone to take care of it. The associate who was "off" could have taken the time to do the same thing on her way out. A few minutes later I saw the "off" associate still in Walmart, badge now off & now with a basket & shopping. She had to pass the greeter to get her basket and easily could have told her about the spill. However, we can find good and bad associates as well as merchandise in all businesses.

Bob 12-29-2007 @ 3:44PM

In reply to the Walmart spill incident; Walmart workers are not allowed to work off the clock, under the Walmart policy they can be terminated by doing so.

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