Pizza Recall

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Oh man, I have about 20 of those pizzas in my freezer.. *runs to check lot number*
Dang! I have all infected ones. That sucks.
 
I figured something was up.
I work in retail as a cashier; several customers came through my check-out lane with those pizzas and we found that they were locked out of our system. (In other words, the register said "Sale Not Allowed" when the pizza was scanned which wouldn't allow me to sell it.) This is going to be a huge recall, as my store alone has about twenty cases of of these pizzas to send back. Worse still, those pizzas are our top sellers, so we'll have some extremely angry customers as well.

CoolTrainer_Doug said:
Oh man, I have about 20 of those pizzas in my freezer.. *runs to check lot number*
Dang! I have all infected ones. That sucks.
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Yeah, that does suck. I would think you'd be able to return them, but returning items can be a royal pain. That and what the heck are you gonna eat?
 
i dunno! I may be a chef at my job but that doesn't mean i can cook at home! I still have 20 or so cheese ones in the freezer..I guess I could add my own e-coli free meat.

I hate returning items..I feel bad, like i'm making people do work that they shoudln't have to.
 
E. coli? Pshaw. That's child's play. Let's get some Botulism up in here.

Seriously though, recalls tend to heavily jump the gun. The temperatures at which you cook those pizzas and for how long would kill most E. coli. I'm not saying eat them all or anything, but now that testing for these things is much more effective, it seems like. We had just as many contaminations before detection methods improved (and probably more) but we weren't wimps about it. Dammit, we ate our E. coli and LIKED it.

*gets off her Microbiology soapbox covered with germs and hopes you realizes that this is half mockery/half truth*

Sorry...it's what I study...
 
One wonders how primitive man, without all the benefits of sanitation and modern medicine ever managed to survive millenia.
 
I can't view the page. What pizza is it talking about?
 
the gadfly said:
One wonders how primitive man, without all the benefits of sanitation and modern medicine ever managed to survive millenia.
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They accepted disease, debilitation and death as facts of life.

We don't.
 
My brother and I eat those pizzas all the time.

We don't have any infected ones though, so we're good, buku~
 
Ketsuban said:
I can't view the page. What pizza is it talking about?
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Well, it won't let me copy + paste, but it's talking about Totino's and Jeno's pizza.


Although, there's another link. http://www.9news.com/news/world/article.aspx?storyid=80170 This one let's me copy + paste.

Frozen pizza recalled because of possible E. coli contamination

posted by: Colleen Locke , Producer created: 11/1/2007 7:57:01 PM
Last updated: 11/1/2007 8:01:57 PM



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MINNEAPOLIS (AP) - General Mills on Thursday recalled about 5 million frozen pizzas sold nationwide under the Totino's and Jeno's labels because of possible E. coli contamination.


The problem may have come from pepperoni on pizzas produced at a General Mills plant in Ohio, the suburban Minneapolis-based company said. It said the pepperoni itself came from a separate supplier, not produced at the plant itself, but it declined to release the name of the pepperoni distributor.

The voluntary recall covers pizzas containing pepperoni that have been produced since July, when the first of 21 E. coli illnesses under investigation by state and federal authorities emerged.

Nine of the 21 people reported eating Totino's or Jeno's pizza with pepperoni topping at some point before becoming ill. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said that eight of the victims have been hospitalized, and four have developed a type of kidney failure.

Eight of the cases were reported in Tennessee, with the other cases found in smaller numbers in Kentucky, Missouri, New York, Virginia, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Illinois, Wisconsin and South Dakota.

"We took action on that basis as a precaution, because of the possibility that a link might exist," said General Mills spokesman Tom Forsythe. "However, to date we have found no E. coli in our plant, and we have found no E. coli in our products."

General Mills said it is cooperating fully with the investigation, which is continuing. The company said it is not naming the pepperoni supplier because the source of the E. coli is still under investigation.

The company asks consumers to throw away recalled pizzas. They can get replacements by clipping the bar code from the box and mailing it with their name and address to Totino's/Jeno's, P.O. Box 200 - Pizza, Minneapolis, MN 55440-0200.

Symptoms of E. coli can include stomach cramps and diarrhea. People typically are ill for two to five days but can develop complications including kidney failure.

In late September, the Topps Meat Co. recalled 21.7 million pounds of frozen hamburger patties after 40 people in eight states got sick from contaminated beef believed to have been imported from Canada. The New Jersey-based company shut down several days later.

The specific products in the recall, with SKU, include:
Totino's Party Supreme, 42800-10700.
Totino's Three Meat, 42800-10800.
Totino's Pepperoni, 42800-11400.
Totino's Pepperoni, 42800-92114.
Totino's Classic Pepperoni, 42800-11402.
Totino's Pepperoni Trio, 42800-72157.
Totino's Party Combo, 42800-11600.
Totino's Combo, 42800-92116.
Jeno's Crisp 'n Tasty Supreme, 35300-00561.
Jeno's Crisp 'n Tasty Pepperoni, 35300-00572.
Jeno's Crisp 'n Tasty Combo, 35300-00576.



(Copyright 2007 by The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved)
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Evil Figment said:
They accepted disease, debilitation and death as facts of life.

We don't.
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Really?

We seem to accept, even invite, heart disease due to our diets and sedentary life styles, lung cancer due to smoking, debilitation due to war, crimes and lack of health insurance, and death due to many examples of modern life such as driving drunk, drug abuse and handguns.
 
the gadfly said:
Really?

We seem to accept, even invite, heart disease due to our diets and sedentary life styles, lung cancer due to smoking, debilitation due to war, crimes and lack of health insurance, and death due to many examples of modern life such as driving drunk, drug abuse and handguns.
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But now you're assuming that we actually think about the consequences of our actions. Honestly, aside from an individual here or there, who thinks of the consequences? No one goes to war thinking about how many people are going to die. No one grabs that extra slice of pizza, knowing it might raise their cholesterol or clog up their heart valves. No one gets in a car, drunk, and doesn't expect to make it to their destination. No one takes a drug and thinks they'll be addicted.

And, as a culture, when these things happen, we're still shocked. We don't think guns can kill. We don't think OUR houses will get broken into. We accept them as abstracts, not as realities.
 
Thank you. You've just provided my rebuttal to evil figment (aka Damien Silverblade).
 
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