According to a story in the Effingham Daily News, two siblings became ill after eating meat distributed by American Foods Group, of Green Bay, Wisconsin:
E. coli-infested ground beef was discovered in October after a 7-year-old girl and an 11-year-old boy from the same Effingham household became sick — one of the two members was hospitalized.
According to Effingham County Health Department Communicable Disease Coordinator Crystal Schutzbach, the family purchased ground beef from Kroger in Effingham on Oct. 19.
Schutzbach said the family consumed half of the meat on that day and two members of the household got sick. The boy was hospitalized with the illness.
“They are both doing fine now,” said Schutzbach, continuing to say the other half of the ground beef package was sent to be tested and was found positive for E. coli 0157:H7 on Nov. 19.
The USDA announced on Saturday that American Foods Group has voluntarily recalled approximately 95,927 pounds of ground beef products because of possible E. coli O157:H7 contamination.
The USDA recall announcement states that the recalled American Foods Group products were distributed for further processing and repackaging, and will not bear the recalling firm’s establishment number on the package. Consumers should contact retailers to ask if they received any of these products.
Beef products subject to recall were produced on Oct. 10, and were distributed to retail establishments in Indiana, Kentucky, Maryland, Ohio, Tennessee, Wisconsin and Virginia.
