Beef Packers, a subsidiary of Cargill, had distributed its ground beef products to distributors and retail stores such as Safeway and Vons in Arizona, California, Colorado, and Utah, and recalled 825,769 pounds of ground beef products for Salmonella Newport contamination on August 6, 2009. The ground beef products were produced between June 6, 2009 and June 23, 2009 at the Beef Packers Fresno plant, and were subsequently repackaged to consumer-sized packages and sold under various brand names. Safeway stores reportedly sold the ground beef as meatloaf, hamburger patties, and as ground beef.
This latest drug-resistant Salmonella outbreak follows on the heels of an earlier drug-resistant Salmonella outbreak that was traced to ground beef produced by King Soopers, Inc.