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Mid-Illinois Newspapers Friday, August 29, 1997 All Eo coin sdaire. ioesiirt stop Americaes' love off beef a Brand Stores Labor Day Sale Specials good thru Monday, September 1 Hours: Friday Saturday 10 am 9 pm Sunday Monday 11 am 6 pm I i formerly Weitport I 217-342-3247 I rril Farmer's Market Fridays Saturdays Come to buy or come to sell! TY BEANIE BABY SALE" SAT.fi SUN. IN THE K-SQUARE FOOD COURT RETIRED CURRENT PIECES 20 Off Any I Single Item I With This Ad Thru 9197 I Not vilWI on 50H off prtvi- I otu purchues, gift certifiates or prior Uyawayt. Cannot be com- bined with ftny other offer or I coupon, 1 coupon per person. I PuHishersYarshcusa 1 1 i iii iii (217)342-3077 Select Merchandise 50 off BAMSTER -lb- By SCOTT BAUER Associated Press Writer When backyard grills are fired up across America this Labor Day weekend, they'll be covered with hamburgers, steaks and ribs, despite the nation's largest recall of meat.

I Tve given some thought to it but I've got to eat meat," said Ira Hayes of New Orleans who was stocking up for the weekend. Tve.got to have it HI just make sure it's well done and hope for the best." Americans will eat just as much beef this weekend as they always do, predicted Chuck Lambert, chief economist for the National Cattlemen's Beef Association. "We don't expect that (the recall) will have a significant impart," Ijambert said. I Traditionally Americans consume 57.5 million Jxunds ofbeef per day, or nearly a quarter pound for each man, woman and child in the country, over the abor Day weekend the last big cookout holiday the year. That's 20 percent more beef than the 'jcountry's average daily consumption of 46 million bounds.

An outbreak of E. coli contamination reported ibis month in Colorado sickened more than a dozen people and was traced to a Hudson Foods Inc. plant Columbus, Neb. The U.S. Department of Agriculture is now investigating food safety practices at the plant.

The contaminated meat is believed to have tome to the plant from an outside supplier. 1, While there have been no deaths or serious ill-jhess reported, the plant has been shut for a week sand 25 million Dounds of beef were recalled Aiur. 21 New Shipment Betty Crocker Cookhoob sumer research. An Omaha, grocery store, about 80 miles east of Hudson Foods' plant, has seen no slide in the demand for beef. "People have been buying about the same amount as they always have and the price has stayed about the same," said Jim Grob, an assistant market manager at the Hy-Vee supermarket.

At the New York State Fair this week, there was little evidence that people are wary about the safety ofbeef. "Sales are going great," said Kim O'Casey, who manages the West End Sports Deck Bar and Grille. Burger King is heading into the Labor Day weekend hoping meat lovers will go for the new Big King sandwich it introduced Thursday. With 5.6 ounces ofbeef, it is designed to compete with the Big Mac, weighing in at 3.2 ounces ofbeef, from industry leader McDonald's. The launch of Big King comes just a week after Burger King pulled all the hamburger meat supplied by Hudson Foods from its stores and said it would no longer buy beef from the Arkansas-based company.even though thatleftaboutaquarterofita restaurants short of hamburger meat for a day or two.

There is no indication any tainted meat wound up in Burger King products. One thing the recall has done is heighten consumers' awareness about how to safely cook meat, said Timothy Hammonds, president of Food Marketing Institute, an association of 15,000 supermarkets. "I think people do understand that ground beef needs to be properly cooked and if it is properly cooked it kills the E. coli bacteria," he said Food safety experts recommend cooking ground beef to 160 degrees to kill the bacteria. Renold Jackson, who works in the meat department at a Schwegmann supermarket in New Orleans, said people may be cautious, but they aren't about to go beef-less this weekend.

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