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Ground Beef

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Category
Meat

Public Health Trace tracks Ground Beef for recalls and outbreaks reported by CDC, FDA, and USDA. Safe-handling guidance for ground beef should come from an authoritative source such as FoodSafety.gov, not this page - Public Health Trace summarizes recall and outbreak records, it does not publish handling advice itself.

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This page prioritizes outbreak investigations, which are reliably linked to Ground Beef. Recall records aren't yet reliably matched to specific foods, so the recall section further down may be incomplete even when Ground Beef has real recalls on record.

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Historical outbreaks

Past outbreak investigations linked to Ground Beef, newest first.

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Outbreaks with confirmed recalls Normalized match

These outbreaks are matched to Ground Beef through a real food-catalog link, not text search. Recalls listed under an outbreak have been explicitly confirmed as connected to it -- see our methodology for how a recall is confirmed to an outbreak.

No recall has been confirmed to this specific outbreak yet.

No recall has been confirmed to this specific outbreak yet.

No recall has been confirmed to this specific outbreak yet.

No recall has been confirmed to this specific outbreak yet.

No recall has been confirmed to this specific outbreak yet.

No recall has been confirmed to this specific outbreak yet.

Outbreak United StatesHistorical record

Clostridium perfringens;Staphylococcus aureus

State
Minnesota
Cases
16
Start date
February 1, 1998
Last updated

Source: CDC NORS Archive

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No recall has been confirmed to this specific outbreak yet.

No recall has been confirmed to this specific outbreak yet.

No recall has been confirmed to this specific outbreak yet.

No recall has been confirmed to this specific outbreak yet.

States involved

States affected by recalls and outbreaks

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Shading reflects state-level totals only, as published by the source. It does not imply county-level or point-level precision.

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States affected by recalls and outbreaks
State Mentions
California 6
Wisconsin 5
Texas 4
Idaho 3
Utah 3
Nevada 2
Washington 2
Minnesota 2
Iowa 2
Vermont 2
Maryland 1
Montana 1
Colorado 1
Virginia 1
New Mexico 1
Ohio 1
Tennessee 1
Nebraska 1
Arkansas 1
Massachusetts 1
Kansas 1

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Outbreaks reported by month (Year to date)

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Summary (Year to date)

  • 0 outbreaks have been reported year to date.
  • The highest complete period was Jan 2026 (0).
  • Sep 2026 is incomplete and not included in the figures above.
  • Complete data
  • Incomplete

Associated diseases

Recall records linked to Ground Beef Beta matching

FDA Recall United States Terminated Historical recordClass II

Impossible Foods

Product
Impossible Foods Bulk, 5 lb. vacuum sealed plastic-pack. Ke…
Reason
Piece of plastic was found in bulk product.
Published
April 17, 2019
Distribution
Multiple states

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Appearing in past recalls does not mean ground beef is inherently unsafe - it means Public Health Trace found published recall or outbreak records mentioning it. For safe-handling guidance, see FoodSafety.gov. Read the full medical disclaimer.