Expanded WinCo E. coli Hamburger Recall
Customers at WinCo Foods should be aware of a widening ground beef E. coli recall and associated investigation by USDA and the California Department of Public Health.
It started last week with an E. coli recall of fresh hamburger at a Winco-owned store in Modesto. Now the company is urging customers at all 70 of its stores in California, Washington, Oregon, Idaho, Utah and Nevada to avoid WinCo store-packaged ground beef with sale dates of March 28-April 9.
A USDA spokesman, Neil Gaffney, told the Modesto Bee newspaper that the agency has launched a traceback investigation involving WinCo’s suppliers to determine where the ground beef E. coli contamination first occurred. It is illegal in the United States to sell ground beef contaminated with E. coli O157:H7, which Congress has declared an adulterant.
No confirmed illnesses have been associated with the recall, but health officials are urging WinCo ground beef customers to see a physician immediately if they suffer bloody stools, severe cramps, diarrhea and other E. coli symptoms.
Tags: California E coli, California Hamburger Recall, e. coli ground beef
