Article: Ground beef from Giant Eagle included in recall

Several hundred thousand pounds of ground beef sold at Giant Eagle outlets last month may be contaminated with potentially deadly bacteria, company officials announced Saturday.

The products can be returned to Giant Eagle for a refund or thrown away, company officials said.

The meat processor, Kansas-based Cargill Meat Solutions Corp., announced a voluntary 10-state recall yesterday of more than 1 million pounds of possibly tainted ground meat, the second time in less than a month that Cargill voluntarily recalled suspect beef.

Giant Eagle's recalled products, which have a sell date in October, may contain E. coli, a bacteria that can cause bloody diarrhea and dehydration. The products were ...

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