AR-News: (US DC) Bad Meat -- and a Beef With Supermarket Notification Policies

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washingtonpost.com
By Don Oldenburg
Washington Post Staff  Writer
Tuesday, July 6, 2004; Page C09 
<NITF>Jill Crowson bought ground beef on Dec. 22 at her local QFC supermarket 
 in Bellevue, Wash., as she had countless times before. But she had no idea 
this  time that it might endanger her f  
When Crowson went through the checkout line, she swiped her QFC Advantage  
Club card through the electronic card reader and it rang up discounts and  
recorded the details of everything she bought.  
<NITF>She cooked the ground beef on Christmas Day to make spaghetti for her  
husband, two children and a niece. A couple weeks later, she read in the  
newspaper that a cow had tested positive for mad cow disease and that 10,000  
pounds of potentially tainted ground beef, distributed in Washington and seven  
other Western states, had been recalled De  
<NITF>"I was shocked and very concerned," says Cro 
<NITF>She asked a QFC meat department employee the next day if she should be  
worried. She says the employee assured her there was no chance the ground 
beef  she bought was infected. She says she saw no recall notices at the   
<NITF>"I wasn't totally reassured," she says, "but at least I had some  
confidence" that her ground beef hadn't been rec 
 
full  story:
_http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A29798-2004Jul5.html_ 
(http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A29798-2004Jul5.html)  



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