FDA's investigation of BTS revealed serious and widespread deficiencies in their manufacturing practices that provide the agency reason to believe that allowing the firm to manufacture would present a danger to public health by increasing the risk of communicable disease transmission.

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FDA's investigation of BTS revealed serious and widespread deficiencies in their manufacturing process.

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Because of the potential hazard of food-borne illness from consumption of meat products contaminated with pathogens such as the E. coli bacteria, I urge consumers who have purchased the suspect product not to eat it and return it to the place of purchase.

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Purchasers of ground beef may wish to ask retailers if ground beef at their stores was produced with any of the recalled product.

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