The Food Safety and Inspection Service of the United States Department of Agriculture has warned Texas consumers not to buy ground beef under questionable circumstances, after a trailer containing almost 15,000 pounds of ground beef was stolen.
The trailer is owned by Fort Worth-based Texas American Food Services Corporation. Officials are afraid the beef could be tainted with E. coli 0157:H7 a possibly infectious bacteria that may lead to food poisoning, bloody diarrhea and dehydration. The elderly, children and people with poor immune systems are most likely to be infected by it.
