From:
Sukie Crandall
Date: 2007-09-29 23:53:05 UTC
Subject: [ferrethealth] for those who feed ground beef to their ferrets
To: ferrethealth@yahoogroups.com, ferret-l@LISTSERV.FERRETMAILINGLIST.ORG
E. coli recall in U.S.
Ferrets, both domestic and BFFs, DO get poisoned by E. coli and can
die of it. (See archives for abstracts of some studies.)
It is not yet on the FDA site but the press is carrying it. For
example:
http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/M/MEAT_RECALL?
SITE=CACRU&SECTION=HOME&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT
> The Topps Meat Co. on Saturday expanded its recall of frozen
> hamburger patties to include 21.7 million pounds of ground beef
> that may be contaminated with E. coli
...
> The recall represents all Topps products with either a "sell by
> date" or a "best if used by date" between Sept. 25 this year and
> Sept. 25, 2008. The Elizabeth-based company said this information
> is found on a package's back panel.
>
> All recalled products also have a USDA establishment number of EST
> 9748, which is located on the back panel of the package and-or in
> the USDA legend, the company said.
...
> The U.S. Department of Agriculture said Friday it had suspended the
> grinding of raw products at the Topps plant
Please, go to the site to read the rest of the article or look for it
in your newspaper
The recall is not yet on the company's site but hopefully will be later:
http://www.toppsmeat.com/news/index.html
I could not yet find any reports in other print news services, but at
least 2 tv news services have already addressed it.
Sukie (not a vet)
Recommended ferret health links:
http://pets.groups.yahoo.com/group/ferrethealth/
http://ferrethealth.org/archive/
http://www.afip.org/ferrets/index.html
http://www.miamiferret.org/fhc/
http://www.ferretcongress.org/
http://www.trifl.org/index.shtml
http://homepage.mac.com/sukie/sukiesferretlinks.html
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