CANADA E COLI
April 1st, 2001
BY MONICA DOBIE
CONSUMERS in Canada have been warned by the Canadian Food Inspection Agency not to eat some Lakeside Packers ground beef products because it may contain the strain of E-coli bacteria that killed seven people and made thousands ill last year in the Walkerton outbreak, in Ontario. The meat in question has been linked to 16 cases of illness in Saskatchewan where fourteen children became ill after eating the beef at a school barbecue.
CONSUMERS in Canada have been warned by the Canadian Food Inspection Agency not to eat some Lakeside Packers ground beef products because it may contain the strain of E-coli bacteria that killed seven people and made thousands ill last year in the Walkerton outbreak, in Ontario. The meat in question has been linked to 16 cases of illness in Saskatchewan where fourteen children became ill after eating the beef at a school barbecue.
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