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Salmonella Beef Illnesses Rise to 40 – Cargill Officials Refuse to Say Where the Beef Was Sold

Posted by Ron Simon on August 11th, 2009 under Salmonella Outbreaks Tags: , , , , , ,  •  No Comments

As salmonella illness totals continue to rise, officials at Cargill, Inc. refuse to identify the grocery chains to which their contaminated beef was sold. Last Thursday, Beef Packers, Inc. (owned by Cargill, Inc.) recalled over 400 tons of ground beef shipped this summer because of an outbreak of a drug-resistant strain of Salmonella Newport. The [...]