Hamburger Recall

“What good does it do to sit at the counter when you cannot afford a hamburger?"
- Martin Luther King, Jr

I'm dismayed by the number of recalls I see for unsafe products and food. The latest to catch my eye is tons of hamburger meat processed in Pennsylvania. Consumerist.com has the details:

A few tons of ground beef from a meat processor in Pennsylvania have been recalled over fear of possible E. coli contamination. As of early Monday morning, the only retail outlets identified as possibly having received the ground beef were BJ's Wholesale clubs in Connecticut, Maine, Maryland, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New York and Virginia.

Since the recalled beef has been repackaged and rebranded it will be tricky to identify. Hopefully the repackaging included the "use/freeze by" date of "07/01/10," and the product code "W69032." Although the use by date has passed, the USDA is concerned that some customers may still have the tainted meat sitting in their freezer.

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See the Consumerist article for a list of stores impacted.