The U.S. Agriculture Department (USDA) has said Omaha meat packing company Nebraska Beef Ltd is expanding its recently announced beef recall, after USDA regulators concluded that the company's production practices on June 24 were insufficient to effectively control E. coli. Nebraska Beef added about 160,000 pounds of beef to last week's beef recall of 1.2 million pounds that may be contaminated with a particularly dangerous strain of E. coli. The total amount now in the recall is about 1.36 million pounds of beef, and includes beef that was produced on June 24, the USDA's Food Safety and Inspection Service said on its web site www.fsis.usda.gov/News_&_Events/Recall_029_2008_Expanded The recall is "Class 1," meaning there is a "reasonable probability" that eating the beef "will cause serious, adverse health consequences or...
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