Sam's Club stores in 10 western states today announced a recall of ground beef that came from Cargill's Beef Packers plant in Fresno, California. The Cargill plant recalled nearly 43 tons of ground beef products associated with an outbreak of Salmonella Newport in Colorado, California and other western states.

Sam's Club said 94 of its stores sold items involved in the Cargill recall. The stores are in Anchorage and Fairbanks, Alaska; Great Falls, Montana; and various locations in Arizona, California, Colorado, Idaho, Nevada, Utah, New Mexico and Wyoming.

Sam's Club said the items would have been purchased between June 16 and July 8. The six recalled items are:

• 90% GROUND BEEF COV MAX 10% FAT with a UPC of 0021209400000
• 90% GROUND BEEF COV MAX 10% FAT with a UPC of 0021200200000
• 90%GROUND BEEF PATTY MAX 10% FAT with a UPC of 0021200300000
• GROUND BEEF MAXIMUM 10% FAT with a UPC of 0029200200000
• MAXIMUM 10% FAT REDUCED PRICE PATTY with a UPC of 0029200300000
• 90% GROUND BEEF MAX 10% FAT/CASE ONLY with a UPC of 0021204700000
  
  National food safety law firm Pritzker Olsen is representing Salmonella victims nationwide and our lawyers have taken on Cargill in the past and won. Our lawyers are available for a free Sam's Club lawsuit consultation regarding recalled ground beef that could be associated with the Salmonella Newport outbreak that has sickened at least 40 people, including 21 confirmed cases in Colorado.

To contact a Salmonella attorney at Pritzker Olsen, call 1-888-377-8900 (Toll Free) or complete one of our online Salmonella compensation consultation forms. We have collected tens of millions of dollars for victims of food poisoning and we are public advocates for reform of our nation's food safety inspection system.

Labels: Cargill lawsuit, Colorado, Colorado outbreak

A Colorado outbreak of a drug-resistant strain of Salmonella Newport has been associated with ground beef processed by Beef Packers, Inc., owned by Cargill. Read about the Cargill connection and a Cargill lawsuit.

The Colorado Salmonella outbreak has prompted Beef Packers to issue a recall of about 825,769 pounds of ground beef products.

The Beef Packers/Cargill recall involves ground beef products were produced on various dates ranging from June 5, 2009 through June 23, 2009. They were distributed to retail distribution centers in Arizona, California, Colorado and Utah.

Please be aware that the recalled ground beef was repackaged into consumer-size packages and sold under different retail brand names. TO FIND OUT IF GROUND BEEF YOU HAVE IN THE FREEZER IS THE RECALLED BEEF, CALL THE RETAILER. Our law firm is advocating for more retailer information to be provided to consumers when there is a recall, and there has been progress. More needs to be done.

To contact our Salmonella litigation law firm, please call 1-888-377-8900 (toll free) or submit our free consultation form.

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King Soopers Inc. of Denver has recalled 466,236 pounds of ground beef products sold in retail after state and federal health investigators associated the meat with a Colorado Salmonella outbreak that has infected at least 14 people.

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and the Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment has identified the type of bacteria in the outbreak as Salmonella Typhimurium DT104.

King Soopers belongs to the Kroger Co. family of grocery stores and the recalled beef was sold in retail stores in Colorado, Kansas, Missouri, Nebraska, New Mexico, Utah and Wyoming. The USDA's Food Safety and Inspection Service said the products were sold between May 23 and June 23 of this year. While investigators believe the meat has all been sold by retailers, many consumers who bought it may have put it in the freezer for storage.

With that much ground beef being recalled, it would seem possible for other cases of Salmonella to be confirmed.

National food safety law firm Pritzker Olsen Attorneys would like to help anyone who has been victimized in this outbreak by eating ground beef distributed by King Soopers and becoming ill. Our lawyers are deeply experienced in foodborne illness litigation and we are representing survivors of Salmonella poisoning around the country.

An attorney is prepared to help you if you call 1-888-377-8900 (toll free), or complete an online form to receive a free case consultation. Our firm has recovered tens of millions for victims of Salmonella and other diseases stemming from adulterated food.

The list of ground beef products recalled by King Soopers includes the following. They bear the USDA establishment number "Est. 6250" and were produced May 23-June 23:

• 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

Labels: Colorado, Colorado E coli, salmonella outbreak

A story in The Denver Post gives a glimpse into the pain suffered by one small victim of the Salmonella outbreak linked to the Alamosa, Colorado, water system. At least 237 residents have reported experiencing symptoms of Salmonella. There have been 72 lab-confirmed cases.

According to The Denver Post story, Miya Spangler, one of the lab-confirmed cases, became ill last Tuesday:

"Last Tuesday she woke up after midnight crying. She had a really high fever and bad diarrhea," said Miya's mother, 20-year-old Amanda Spangler.
"I had a really bad feeling about it," she said.

She took her daughter to the doctor the day officials realized they were in the grip of a salmonella outbreak caused by contaminated city drinking water.

"I felt terrible because I gave her the bottle, the formula, that made her sick," Amanda said. "For two days she had no expression on her face. She just lay there."

Miya's father, Joey, said that for part of her week-long illness his daughter was either asleep or crying.

The water was bad, so her parents couldn't bathe her to bring down her temperature, which her mother said topped out at 105.9 degrees.

The baby had a terrible rash. She threw up. She had blood in her stool, her mother said.

Posted March 2008.

Labels: Colorado, Colorado outbreak, Salmonella, symptoms