Some solidified beef burgers sole by Canada Safeway Ltd. are being removed since they might be infested with E. coli bacteria.
Canadian Food Inspection Agency officials contend an review was launched after dual people in Manitoba and Ontario got sick.
The remember includes a Gourmet Meat Shoppe Big Juicy Burger and a Gourmet Meat Shoppe Prime Rib Burger with a best before date of Aug. 14, 2013.
Also influenced are Butcher’s Cut Pure Beef Patties sole in packages of 10, 20 and 40, that also have a best before date of Aug. 14.
CFIA and Canada Safeway contend a products were distributed in Ontario, Manitoba, Saskatchewan, Alberta, British Columbia and a Northwest Territories.
Linked to plant in Ontario
The Canadian Food Inspection Agency pronounced a beef has been related behind to Cardinal Meat Specialists, a plant in Ontario. Cardinal operates a plant in Brampton, Ont.
CFIA orator Paul Mayers pronounced during a press discussion in Ottawa Wednesday morning that a review might expand.
“Cardinal Meat Specialists is one of a largest producers of solidified burger patties in Canada, sourcing mixture from a accumulation of other suppliers,†he said. “Therefore, a impasse in a remember of solidified burgers does not indispensably vigilance a problem in a Cardinal Meat Specialists trickery itself.â€
Mayers says there is no couple now to a southern Alberta plant before famous as XL Foods, that was a source of a largest remember of beef in Canadian history. The plant located in Brooks is now owned by Brazil-based association JBS.
CFIA says contrast for E. coli O157:H7 will continue to see if any other products might be affected.
Food infested with E. coli O157:H7 might not demeanour or smell spoiled, though it is potentially deadly. Health officials contend it can means bloody diarrhea, dehydration and, in a many serious cases, kidney failure.
With files from CBC News
© The Canadian Press, 2013
