Yikes--Just When You Thought It Was Safe--Another Food Recall

It is quite alarming that these food recalls are happening considering that we are on the advanced stage already; food manufacturers should have stressed the importance of food sanitation in their processing, and the impact of this on the consumers' health. And as a consumer, we should also be cautious of the processed foods we are buying.

Hi pyewacket, This is insane ... what next? I just don't understand why there have been so many recalls of late, and not just food items either. We can't be too careful. I do buy the frozen meat patties, but not the brand you've mentioned. We're having our recall problems here in Canada too. Thanks so much for letting everyone know. Take Care.

thanks again for the heads up I havent eatin the TOPP brand but will look out for it thanks

it is safer to make your own patties then froze it. atleast you know how long it can be safe to eat.

Thanks for the news about another recall. When will it end. I don't buy the frozen beef patties either, but I'm sure a lot of people do. How sad.:(

Gee Pye, this is terrible, and I hate it when the health of so many people is at risk, because they didn't check better and made sure all is safe. Here in The Netherlands this doesn't happen often, or I cannot recall anything regarding food for people in the last 8 years. Only the food for dogs and cats imported for China was copntaminated with something twice in 2 years time. I was so angry that I promised myself to never buy any cat food if not made here, or in the EU. You did very well to bring this to the attention ofm people in MyLot though, thanks dear friend :) TheFortunes

Hey pw, I don't eat frozen hamburger patties either but I'm sure the ppl who do are really glad you posted this discussion.Thanks for keeping us informed |;) +'s |:)

This is rather alarming for the US. I haven't taken much notice previously because what happens over there doesn't concern me. But it's gone way beyond what can be considered normal. What is happening? Is this food produced locally or imported? For all we are pushed to buy local product there is still a lot of importing of products..it doesn't make much sense. Especially idf those products are sub-standard. Don't you have controls in the US to stop this sort of thing before it occurs?

I don't think I'm ever going to be sure it's safe anymore! Unbelieveable! Hamburger patties, packaged salads, peanut butter...and we thought our only danger came from China! These are things that come from the good old USA! This isn't the first recall involving frozen hamburger patties; I forget just when it was that it happened before but I haven't gotten any since then not that I got them very much to begin with. It really is very frightening because you never know about these things until something bad happens to somebody and contrary to popular opinion, yes it could happen to you and me! On that happy note...wanna start our own food coop? Annie

i had some of these in my freezer.it wasn't the same lot,but i pitched them anyway.why take chances? if my mother had gotten some of that,i'm sure it'd killed her (already ill). i'm about ready to stop eating cow in it's entirety.

Really makes you want to grow your own food, doesn't it?

I just bought some patties last week but I don't know what brand, we take them out of the package and freeze them in baggies. It wasn't in a box though so I think we're ok. I am so sick and tired of food recalls. One more and I'm just going to go outside and eat grass from now on, lol.

My sister had some of these in her freezer when we heard of the recall. Ugh. She and I both had the recalled peanut butter as well. I am scared to eat anything these days!

Thanks for passing this on because some of us don't know about it yet. I heard about it on the news and I feel terrible about the amount of the recall because it tells me roughly how many were killed for nothing all because someone wasn't doing their job properly. What a terrible waste of life. I'm glad I don't eat much meat and none of hamberger for I don't want to be a part of this. I'm working on being a total vegetarian so I won't be any part of it at all. Just looking at the meat I get to thinking, damn, it was alive at one time and I can't eat it. Some meats I don't like and hamberger is definetely one of them along with pork.

Wow, I didn't hear about peanut butter being recalled! I love peanut butter. I only buy it from the health food store though, where it's freshly made and not pre-packaged. But this is too scary! I think we have to get back to the ways of our ancestors, where people raised and prepared their own food. We can make our own beef patties, peanut butter, baby food, pet food, etc., etc. It's starting to seem like this is the only way to be safe...or at least if something DOES happen, we would know it's our own fault and not because of poor inspection practices at some overseas factory or whatnot. What makes me angry is someone somewhere profited very nicely from all this pre-packaged stuff, when it's not even that healthy, and now it's becoming unsafe to eat. :-(

Oh thanks so much for that info!! I do on occasion buy those hamburgers but thankfully not recently :) *sigh of relief* My hubby told me the last time not to buy them anymore. He doesn't like them as much as buying the regular hamburger meat and patting them out. I thought they tasted great with a lot less of the hassle. LOL

Thisis getting to be common place. Are we just finding out about more of it, or is there actually more contamination occuring. We have a meat grinder and grind our own. I think the farther away we can stay from these kinds of things the better off we are.

Jeez, is it safe to eat anything anymore?

I heard about that. I never buy premade patties because I like to do them myself. So that's one recall I don't have to worry about! Thanks for posting the warning, though.

This reminded me anyway to be careful about my food choices. Thanks a lot!