The Kroger Corporation expanded its voluntary recall of some ground beef products beyond grocery stores in Michigan and parts of Ohio to its stores in more than 20 states including Texas.

The Houston Chronicle reports that, “the nation’s biggest traditional grocer also Wednesday urged customers to check the ground beef in their refrigerators and freezers for the date by which the product must be sold.”

Meat that originally comes from one of Kroger’s suppliers, Nebraska, Beef Ltd., has been linked to illness caused by the E. coli bacteria as reported in Michigan and Ohio between May 31 and June 8.

Nebraska Beef had produced 532,000 pounds of ground beef on the dates between May 16 and June 24, which the company recalled from wholesalers and other processing companies.

On Wednesday, Kroger said that as a precaution it had removed ground beef supplied by Nebraska Beef from its stores, and is expanding the recall to its stores in more than 20 states. Kroger is a Cincinnati-based corporation.

According to the Chronicle, “in some stores, the recall includes products in Styrofoam tray packages wrapped in clear cellophane or purchased from an in-store service counter. It does not include ground beef sold in sealed tubes in one, three or five-pound packages and frozen ground beef patties sold in the frozen food section of its stores.”

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