Drop that burger! Bad beef recall means a bacterium alert


Again, Americans are at risk due to food contaminated with dangerous if not deadly bacteria. But this time, it’s not in peanuts, tomatoes, Serrano peppers or pistachios. Rather, the meat of the matter is that  deadly bacterium E. coli 0157:H7 has been found lurking in almost 96,000 pounds of beef sold by an Illinois distributor.

Valley Meats LLC of Coal Valley, Ill. has recalled 95,898 pounds of its ground beef, in a move which the U.S. Department of Agriculture calls a “Class One” recall. In food terms, that’s like “Code Red” — and we don’t mean “medium rare.” It means your chance of being seriously infected by such meat is high.

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