GILROY
– Beef products from a slaughterhouse that processed a mad cow
in Washington state have bypassed this city’s five supermarkets,
Santa Clara County officials say, but whether they have been served
at local restaurants is confidential.
GILROY – Beef products from a slaughterhouse that processed a mad cow in Washington state have bypassed this city’s five supermarkets, Santa Clara County officials say, but whether they have been served at local restaurants is confidential.
There have been no beef product recalls from Gilroy’s supermarkets – Nob Hill Foods, Safeway Food & Drug, P.W. Market Place and two Arteaga’s Super Save locations – according to both county officials and staff members at each of these markets’ meat departments.
Beef soup bones have been recalled from an Asian-style grocery store in San Jose and six as-yet-unnamed restaurants throughout the county, county officials have confirmed. Federal rules prohibit county officials from identifying the establishments unless the owners give permission.
Inspectors with the county Department of Environmental Health visited the six eateries Monday to encourage them to notify their customers, county spokesperson Gwendolyn Mitchell said.
There is little chance the 10,000-plus pounds of nationally recalled beef is actually infected with bovine spongiform encephalopathy, or mad-cow disease, which was found in one cow in Washington state.
Nevertheless, consumer advocacy groups have expressed frustration that the federal government protects the six restaurants’ identities.
