FORT WORTH, Texas (AP) -- American Fresh Foods of Fort Worth, Texas, is warning consumers in Oklahoma and Texas to avoid possible parking lot or roadside sales of ground beef. The company says someone stole a refrigerated truck containing nearly 15,000 pounds of meat possibly contaminated with E. coli bacteria.
The company's products are safe to buy in grocery stores, but officials are urging people not to buy the beef under "questionable circumstances."
American Fresh Foods is working with U.S. Department of Agriculture officials and other authorities to issue a public health alert and to find the stolen meat and truck.
-- All labels are printed with "EST. 13116" inside the USDA mark of inspection.
-- Labels for the 1- to 2-pound packages also list the company name below the nutrition information.
-- Labels for the bulk packages, weighing between 40 and 370 pounds, also list a date of "12-19-07" with the production information filled in by hand.

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The stomach discomfort is not going to be worth it.

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Tuesday my service writer got bad case food poisoning and has missed nearly a weeks work so far, he has been sick to the point he was passing some blood.
E. coli and things like that are nothing to mess with.

Food Poisoning is the PITS!

I ate some FISH last year that I put in the oven and man! I was at the hospital within a couple of hours!
I was so sick!
I don't ever want to go thru that again.

but wouldn't cooking this meat to well done kill the bacteria ? or is e. coli one of those that laugh at high temps.

Yes, cooking to a high enough temperature for a long enough time will kill e. coli, but who wants to eat well done beef?

Why would they have a trailer half full of contaminated meat sitting around? Maybe they were going to try and sluff it off on Mexico or someplace else. That place is pretty nasty anyway.

true. but some people like there meat over cooked. i like them medium or medium rare. it all depends on the cut of steak.

mexico is not that bad. just poor leadership and very little economy. i have been there to deliver or for other reasons on many occassions in the past.

Thats why I have 2 steers out back that are about 4 months away from a one way ride to the butcher shop. All grass fed, all natural, all organic, now lets hope the local butcher shop runs a clean plant. I have been in there to watch them cut up a steer and they run a good operation.

Eat up Mr. T-Bone and Rib Eye....