Well this could be a clue why there hasn't been any ongoing press repair kits being tossed out to reporters by JBS. What is poignant though is that it is not about a ground hamburger problem (read the comments ongoing in a previous post). It is about internal practices if I am making correct assumptions about where that wash process occurs. I wonder what JBS stockholders are thinking now... "Do we have enough contingency funds?" I don't think insurance is going to want to cover this oversight. I could be wrong. Any one else have ideas?
Addendum: There is more discussion in the original article on how the E. coli could have gotten into the system. Although I do not understand the potential reasoning between "the machine was broken and it didn't get done" and it is the consumer's job to cook the meat to 160 degrees plus it is the USDA's role to expand their testing? Huh? Why isn't the company's feet being baked over the coals? They left out a safety step. I'm either missing a concept here or someone has slept with someone in the chain of power (that's a metaphor by the way not a serious accusation we all know journalists don't really get those kind of offers except in the movies. They don't make enough money).
N.M. teen sues Swift over E. coli - The Denver Post
Addendum: There is more discussion in the original article on how the E. coli could have gotten into the system. Although I do not understand the potential reasoning between "the machine was broken and it didn't get done" and it is the consumer's job to cook the meat to 160 degrees plus it is the USDA's role to expand their testing? Huh? Why isn't the company's feet being baked over the coals? They left out a safety step. I'm either missing a concept here or someone has slept with someone in the chain of power (that's a metaphor by the way not a serious accusation we all know journalists don't really get those kind of offers except in the movies. They don't make enough money).
N.M. teen sues Swift over E. coli - The Denver Post
The first of what might be several lawsuits by people sickened by E. coli-tainted beef was filed Monday in Denver federal court against the Greeley slaughterhouse that produced the meat and later recalled it.
The suit by 13-year-old Alex Roerick of Albuquerque alleges that he was sickened and hospitalized after eating meat that had been produced at the JBS Swift & Co. packing plant in late April.
The youth suffered flulike symptoms shortly after eating shish kebab at his grandmother's house May 10. Doctors later determined he had hemolytic uremic syndrome, a complication from ingesting E. coli 0157:H7, which derives from cattle feces.
Roerick's family ate the same meat, but he had more than the others, said his attorney, William Marler.
Of concern is that Roerick was sicked by whole muscle meat, not ground beef, as is typically the case with E. coli.
"It just shows how virulent the bacteria is," Marler said. "This is more than just a hamburger problem."
Swift refused to comment on the suit but said contamination might have come from the absence of an organic acid wash the meat is supposed to get before packaging, spokesman Chandler Keys said.
"We found that on April 21, pieces of meat mainly used for sirloin steaks were diverted from the spray because it was under repair," Keys said.
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