Please note this is part of an ongoing investigation into E. coli in certain ground beef products.
List of Recalled Products | Related Alerts (listed by date)
OTTAWA, MAY 10, 2012 - As a result of a Canadian Food Inspection Agency's (CFIA) food safety investigation, additional information is being provided to help consumers identify Irresistibles brand products, included in a March 17, 2012 recall.
Six Irresistibles brand ground beef products, listed below, were recalled on March 17, 2012 and removed from retail at that time. The following codes provide consumers with additional guidance to help them identify previously recalled product in their homes.
Products should not be consumed if they bear a 5 digit lot code where the first four digits are 1821 up to and including 3651 and 0012 up to and including 0472. These codes can be found on any one of the six outside panels of the box. These codes would only appear on the six previously recalled products listed in the table below.
The number of products affected by this recall has not changed.
Any new information obtained by the CFIA will be posted to the CFIA website.
For more information, consumers and industry can call the CFIA at 1-800-442-2342 / TTY 1-800-465-7735 (8:00 a.m. to 8:00 p.m. Eastern time, Monday to Friday).
For information on E. coli O157:H7, visit the Food Facts web page at: http://www.inspection.gc.ca/english/fssa/concen/cause/ecolie.shtml
For information on all food recalls, visit the CFIA's Food Recall Report at: http://active.inspection.gc.ca/eng/corp/recarapp_dbe.asp.
To find out more about receiving recalls by e-mail, and other food safety facts, visit: www.foodsafety.gc.ca. Food and consumer product recalls are also available at http://www.healthycanadians.gc.ca.
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