Contaminated beef may have come to Minnesota
Ground beef contaminated with E. coli and linked to 18 illnesses, including one death, went to Target stores nationwide and to Aldi stores in Minnesota, Wisconsin and Iowa as well as other Midwest states.
The U.S. Department of Agriculture has now identified the grocery chains that received the product.
Federal health officials said the outbreak of illnesses appears to be over, but are urging consumers to check their freezers to see if they have any of the beef subject to the recall, which includes 3-, 10- and 20-pound chubs.
Health officials have traced the contamination to a Colorado plant operated by Minnetonka-based Cargill, which issued a recall Sept. 19.
Most of the cases of illness, including the fatal one, were in Florida.
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