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Salmonella Outbreak Tied to Colorado Beef

By PritzkerLaw

A Colorado company is recalling 466,236 pounds of ground beef products that may be linked to a Colorado Salmonella outbreak of at least 14 matching Salmonella illnesses reported in the state.

The firm is called King Soopers Inc. of Denver. The Salmonella type -- as confirmed by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and the Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment -- is Salmonella Typhimurium DT104. The information was released late Wednesday by the USDA's Food Safety and Inspection Service (FSIS), the agency in charge of keeping our meat supply safe.

"FSIS has no reason to believe that these products are still available for sale in commerce,'' the press release said. However, consumers that may have purchased these fresh ground beef products between May 23 and June 23, 2009, could have stored them in their freezers.

The ground beef products bearing the USDA establishment mark "EST. 6250" were distributed to retail establishments in Colorado, Kansas, Missouri, Nebraska, New Mexico, Utah and Wyoming.

If you or a loved one has been sickened by ground beef products in Colorado, Kansas, Missouri, Nebraska, New Mexico or Wyoming, call national food safety law firm Pritzker Olsen Attorneys. We are one of the few firms in the country that has practiced extensively for years in the area of foodborne illness litigation and we are representing Salmonella victims around the country.

To contact a Salmonella lawyer at Pritzker Olsen, call 1-888-377-8900 or complete one of our electronic forms to receive a free case consultation. We have collected tens of millions of dollars for victims of food poisoning. We are especially familiar with Salmonella Typhimurium.

Here's a list of products subject to the King Soopers recall. King Soopers is in the Kroger Co. family of grocery stores:

• 1-pound chubs of 93/7 ground beef
• 1- to 1.25-pound tray packs of 96/4 ground beef.
• 1- to 1.25-pound tray packs of 93/7 ground beef.
• 2.5- to 3-pound tray packs of 93/7
• 6-pack trays of 93.7 ground beef patties.

The ground beef products were made on various dates ranging from May 23, 2009, through June 13, 2009, and they bear the establishment number 6250. 

Full post as published by Food Poisoning Law Blog on July 23, 2009 (boomark / email).