The US Department of Agriculture’s (USDA) Food Safety and Inspection Service has issued a recall for eight tons of ground beef products sold at Walmart due to possible E. coli
USDA’s Food Safety and Inspection Service (FSIS) collected 30 samples of ground beef from retail outlets in the states with dairy cattle herds that had tested positive for H5N1 at the time of sample collection. Federal authorities have been working to confirm the safety of milk and meat products after the detection of H5N1 in 34 dairy cattle herds across nine states since the end of March.
Germany’s Federal Office of Consumer Protection and Food Safety notified the FSIS the product was shipped ‘without the benefit of equivalent inspection’.
The USDA’s Food Safety and Inspection Service has announced its final determination to declare Salmonella an adulterant in raw breaded chicken products when they exceed a specific contamination threshold.
Federal officials continue to investigate the spread of avian flu, also known as bird flu, in livestock across the country and are now testing the U.S. beef supply to look for the genetic presence of the H5N1 virus. The virus has been found in at least 34 cattle herds across nine states, according to the U.S. Department of Agriculture. The federal agency said it remains confident that the nation's meat supply is safe.