Beef recall expands again
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Canadian Press
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10/6/2012 1:12:00 PM
The recall list of beef products from the XL Foods plant in Brooks, Alta., has been expanded yet again.
Dozens of meat cuts and stores have been added to the list which now contains hundreds of products and stores across Canada and the United States.
The Alberta government has confirmed that five people fell ill last month from E. coli linked to steaks processed at the XL plant.
And officials are investigating whether a person who got sick from E. coli in Newfoundland is the sixth case linked to XL.
Tests are also being done to find the source of E. coli in four other cases in Alberta, 13 in Saskatchewan and one in British
Columbia.
Harpreet Kochhar with the Public Health Agency of Canada told reporters yesterday that XL Foods had a plan in place to battle E. coli, but didn't follow or update that plan.
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