date:Jun 01, 2012
Beginning 4 June, the meat industry will have to test the following six additional strains - E. coli O26, O111, O103, O121, O45 and O145 in beef trimmings.
In addition, selling raw beef trimmings and non-intact beef products contaminated with any of these strains would be illegal.
Till date, the meat industry had to test only for one strain of the pathogen known as E. coli O157:H7, which is the most common cause of foodborne illness in the US.
Over the years, while the number of foodborne ill