New Food Classics of Burlington is recalling burgers from
across Canada, including No-Name Club Pack burgers marketed through a number of
Loblaws-owned supermarket chains.
The Canadian Food Inspection Agency says the burgers may be
contaminated with E. coli 0157:H7 and may not look or smell spoiled.
The Loblaws chains that carry the product as Club Pack Beef
Steakettes.
In Ontario they are marketed through Loblaws-owned
Cash&Carry/RCWC Ontario Corporate stores, Extra Foods, Freshmart, Loblaws
Great Food, no frills, Real Canadian Superstore, SuperValu, Superstore, Your
Independent Grocer and Shop Easy.
The recall also involves The Country Morning Beef Burgers
distributed across Western Canada via COOP and TGP grocery stores.
The Canadian Food Inspection Agency says there has been one
illness associated with this product.
E. coli 0157:H7 can make people very sick; some people die,
as happened in Walkerton where the drinking water was contaminated with this
poison-producing bacteria.
The CFIA says on its website that “symptoms include severe abdominal pain and bloody diarrhoea. Some
people may have seizures or strokes and some may need blood transfusions and
kidney dialysis. Others may live with permanent kidney damage. In severe cases
of illness, people may die.”
The CFIA does not
say how many kilograms of products are involved in the recall.
It issued the
first alert at mid-afternoon Saturday, Feb. 18, the start of a Monday-holiday
weekend.
The no name Loblaws products are :
| no name Club Pack Beef Steakettes | 2.27kg | 0 60383 01321 9 | BB 2012 AL 10 EST 761 |
The Country Morning Beef Burgers are:
| Country Morning Beef Burgers | 1kg | 0 57316 02941 6 | 52841 EST 761 62841 EST 761 72841 EST 761 82841 EST 761. |
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