Fresno eatery got beef in recall

The Fresno Bee ^ | 9 Jan, 2004 | Robert Rodriguez

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A Vietnamese restaurant in Fresno was among the markets and restaurants that received a portion of recalled beef linked to the nation's first case of mad cow disease. Business owner Song Nguyen says federal officials phoned him last week about a shipment of beef bones he bought from a Bay Area wholesaler in late November.

"I was kind of worried when they told me," said Nguyen of Pho 75-2 Oriental Restaurant on East McKinley Avenue. "I am hopeful everything is OK."

The bones -- about three or four 50-pound cases -- were used in soups for flavoring a week after Nguyen received them.

"They [the USDA] said they wanted to buy them back," Nguyen said. "But they are already gone -- they were already cooked."

U.S. Department of Agriculture officials say the risk to consumers who may have eaten the recalled beef is "extremely low."

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Maybe, just maybe this is the restaraunt that provided food for past Fresno city council meetings that lasted through lunch?

Mad cow (Debbie Reyes) alert!

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[John Beresford Tipton]

Better put dog back on the menu!

[Agnes Heep]

They should be fine, as long as the rats are healthy.