Stolen truck may have beef contaminated with E. Coli

by Sarah J. Gim, Posted Dec 29th 2007 @ 11:39AM

Some thieves got away with a bounty of beef -- 14,800 pounds of it, to be exact. But who gets the last laugh? The beef may have been contaminated with E.Coli, so the thieves didn't get much right?

Wrong.

Timothy Biela, Chief Food Safety and Quality Assurance Officer for the company that produced the beef, says they are concerned, not for consumers who purchase beef through normal channels, but "for the safety of those people who may be persuaded to buy beef products under questionable circumstances. We do not know how this product has been handled since it left our control. The stolen truck had only a limited supply of refrigeration fuel."

The beef was produced by Fort Worth-based American Fresh Foods. The company had set the trailer of beef away to eventually be removed from commercial sale. After the trailer was stolen, the USDA issued a public health alert and is now working with local and state law enforcement authorities to recover the stolen product and vehicle.

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Filed Under: Health & Medical, Ingredients
Tags: america, beef, e coli, food recalls, food safety, recall, southern states

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12-30-2007 @9:15PM Bill said... If you get a chance to buy a Rolex watch or hamburger from an unusual source at an unbelievable price--then it may be "too good to to be true". Paying $200 to street to a vendor for a questionable Rolex maybe a better risk than paying $2.00 to "a friend of a friend" for 10 pounds of hamburger.
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