All beef products made at ConAgra’s meat plant in Colorado will be tested by food safety inspectors until the company can prove it can prevent E. coli contamination.
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A US Agriculture Department official said that the checks will remain in place until ConAgra con demonstrate it has sufficient safeguards to prevent contamination, reports Reuters. The precautions follow the country’s second largest ever beef recall, when nearly 19 million pounds of ground beef were recalled after 28 people across seven states fell ill after eating beef contaminated with E. coli.
Steve Cohen, spokesman for the USDA’s Food Safety and Inspection Service, said the Colorado plant revised its food safety system after the federal government threatened to pull its inspectors, which would have shut down the facility. Cohen offered reassurance that the plant would be “continuing to operate under close scrutiny for the foreseeable future”.
Some 30 food safety inspectors from the USDA will be in attendance at the plant to ensure the new safety checkpoints are adequate. All beef products will be tested – this compares with random testing at other US meat plants.
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