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Beware of Contaminated Hamburgers

The Servicio Nacional de Salud Animal (Senasa) del Ministerio de Agricultura y Ganadería (MAG) has ordered the immediate removal of all El Arreo CIISA "tortas de carne" (hamburgers) from the national market after it found some 80 boxes of meat contaminated with EColi.

Senasa is asking the public not to consume the products.

Freddy Sibaja, marketing director of of El Arreo, based in La Rivera de Belén, near Cariari, said yesterday that all the products had been removed from stores.

Sibaja added that the company took it upon itself to recover all the contaminated products and then destroying in the presence of officials of the Ministerio de Agricultura y Ganadería (MAG) - agriculture ministry.

 
 
 
 
 


 

 

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