Locally-sold meat products on recall list
Several meat products distributed in the Yukon are on the recall list issued by the Canadian Food Inspection Agency.
Several meat products distributed in the Yukon are on the recall list issued by the Canadian Food Inspection Agency.
The agency is recalling different cuts of steaks and roasts sold by Extra Food and the Real Canadian Superstore with the best-before dates from Sept. 6 to Oct. 2.
None of the beef products sold at the Super A and Bigway grocery outlets in the Yukon are listed on the agency’s recall list.
Food agency spokesman Guy Gravelle said this morning consumers should check the meat products in their fridges and freezers against the list of products on the recall list available on the agency’s website.
They should return any listed product to the retailer for a refund, or dispose of the product, Gravelle said.
The agency suspended operations at the XL Food facility in Brooks, Alta. in early September.
On Sept. 16, it issued the initial recall of ground beef products.
None of the ground beef products were distributed to any of the grocery stores in the Yukon, according to the agency’s website.
The agency, however, expanded the recall on Sept. 21 to include several other products that were distributed to the two Yukon grocery stores.
They include T-bone steaks, different roasts, beef stir fry, beef soup bones, blake steaks, tenderloin, rouladen, and beef-pork sausage, to name a few.
Staff at the local Extra Foods and Superstore referred questions this morning to Loblaws’ head office.
Dave Wilkes, senior vice-president of the Retail Council of Canada, responded on Loblaws’ behalf.
Wilkes said once the recall was issued, retailers would have immediately responded by pulling any recalled products off the shelf.
There is the distinct chance products on the recall list were sold in the Yukon before the recall was expanded to include roasts and steaks and other cuts of meat, he said.
Wilkes said at this point the number of individual recalled products sold in the Yukon is not available.
He said if consumers aren’t sure whether the meat they used to cook and then freeze a certain meal, they should throw it out.
The number of confirmed illnesses in Alberta related to the ecoli contamination at XL Foods is up to 10.
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Oct 3, 2012 at 5:43 pm
I know how to cook meat correctly, so I’m not the least bit worried about any beef I might have purchased.
One should be much more concerned about the contaminants in poultry and pig from the feed they eat. Salmonella is common on most poultry, but you don’t see any alarmist rhetoric about ‘poultry recalls’
Don’t eat industrial meat. Know where your food comes from.
Some people are easily fooled by political extremists who seize on any news item to promote their agenda.