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28,000 pounds of ground beef may have been contaminated with E. Coli, and as a precaution Interstate Meat Dist. Inc. is recalling all of it.
Major retailers like Walmart, Kroger, Albertsons and WinCo sold this product.
The product was sold under their store brand name.
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Locations in Arizona, California, Nevada, Oregon, Utah, Washington and Wyoming are impacted.
Added to that list later were Alaska, Colorado, Hawaii, Idaho and Montana.
Impacted Kroger products are the one and three pound packages of ground beef 93% at Fred Meyer stores. These products have a use or freeze by date of Jan. 11, 2022.
Albertsons listed its Signature Farms Ground Beef 93% Lean/7% Fat products sold at Albertsons and Safeway in Oregon and Washington. The use or freeze by date is for Jan. 11, 2022.
Walmart’s one pound All Natural Ground Beef 90% lean, 10% fat as well as its one and three pound All Natural Ground Beef 93% lean, 7% fat products are recalled. These have a use or freeze by date of Jan. 11, 2022.
WinCo’s one pound WinCo fresh ground beef sirloin, 90% lean, 10% fat, and one and three pound WinCo fresh ground beef 93% lean, 7% fat products are recalled. Their freeze by dates are Jan. 11, 2022.
This specific incident has been labeled a Class I recall by the CDC.
This means that if anyone uses the product, there is a high chance the person could contract E. Coli.