Hoss’s Steak and Sea Restaurants, a Pennsylvania-based restaurant chain with branches in Pennsylvania, Virginia, and West Virginia, has issued a recall of its steaks, ground beef patties, and other cuts of meat used at their restaurants due to possible contamination with E. coli O157:H7.
The FSIS and the Pennsylvania Department of Public Health have linked several illnesses to steak products produced at the plant that supplies Hoss’s Steak and Sea Restaurants.
Steaks typically are not high-risk sources of E. coli O157:H7 because the bacteria is only found on the outside of the steak and killed once the outside of the steak is cooked. However, the steaks involved in this recall were injected with tenderizers and flavor-enhancing solutions in a process that could have transferred the bacteria from thee surface of the steaks to the inside.
Recalled meat should not be eaten. If someone has eaten some of the meat, any leftovers should be preserved for at least 10 days after last consumed. If someone who ate the meat is diagnosed with E. coli O157:H7, any leftover meat can be tested and used a evidence.
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