The blood in this meat might be human blood. The meat went to restaurants in Florida
Possible blood in the beef — human blood in the beef — caused the latest not-food-in-your-food recall, which was made by US Foods Saturday.
“The problem was discovered after the facility learned that an employee may have cut himself during production” on Thursday, the USDA recall notice states.
The beef went to restaurants in Florida, Georgia, Mississippi, Tennessee and Alabama. The restaurants are, of course, told to put the beef in the garbage, not on the grill. The tonnage of the recalled beef, 712 pounds, is feathery compared to the usual USDA product recall.
A US Foods spokesperson emailed the Miami Herald, “We take food safety measures very seriously and issued the recall out of an abundance of caution.”
US Foods spokesperson did not answer the specific questions:
▪ In which city and state is the facility located?
▪ How did the company discover the issue?
▪ How badly did the employee cut himself and where?
Anyone with questions can call US Foods’ Sara Matheu at 847-720-2392.
This story was originally published July 24, 2019 at 12:52 PM.
