Modesto meat company recalls 1M lbs of ground beef

[SoCalNative]

MODESTO — A Modesto meat company is recalling about one million pounds of ground beef products after seven people were sickened by E. coli contamination.

The U.S. Department of Agriculture announced Friday that Valley Meat Company had sold the potentially contaminated meat in California, Texas, Oregon, Arizona and internationally.

The beef was processed between Oct. 2, 2009 to Jan. 12, 2010. The company says most of the products are sold frozen and that they're working to remove them from grocery store shelves.

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[Yavapai]

1. A recall 8 months after the meat is sold does a lot of good!

I wonder if Safeway uses its club card to notify customers who bought this product through their stores?

[SoCalNative]

2. The dates are when it was processed

As the meat is frozen, it could still be on store shelves.

And I don't know about Safeway/Vons using that information, but I know that Kroger/Ralphs did recently with the Marie Callender's frozen dinner recall since I did get a prerecorded phone call from them.

[Ignis]

3. Unavailable for comment:

[roguevalley]

4. all those animals. I am sick.