Updated at 4:41 p.m., Thursday, December 20, 2007
Safeway issues advisory on ground beef
Advertiser Staff
Safeway issued an advisory for Hawai'i and four other states after being notified by the USDA that it may have received ground beef products with a strain of Salmonella Newport between Sept. 19 and Nov. 5.Safeway said it was not issuing a recall and that no ground beef currently in stores is the subject of the alert, which pertains to ground beef that may have been sold at Safeway stores seven or more weeks ago.
"To date, no Safeway product has tested positive for Salmonella Newport and the USDA has not definitively identified one product, retailer or establishment that is the source of the contamination," Safeway said in a press statement.
"In response to the alert, however, the company is asking customers who have raw ground beef products in their freezer purchased in these particular states between Sept. 19 and Nov. 5 to discard the product, as advised by the USDA."
Safeway said the alert also covered California, Arizona, Nevada and New Mexico. It said there has been a single reported case in Idaho that has no apparent ties to Safeway.
Safeway noted proper cooking kills Salmonella Newport. It said people with safety questions can call the USDA Meat and Poultry Hotline at 1-888-674-6854 or go to the Web site AskKaren.gov.
