Grocery Outlet Pulls Ground Beef From Stores After Reports Of Glass Inside Meat

SACRAMENTO (CBS13) — A grocery chain is pulling pre-packaged ground beef off the shelves at hundreds of stores across the country because a Bay Area woman found pieces of glass in her meat.

Mike Pouard says he bought Harris Ranch 5-pound pre-packaged ground beef last week from a Grocery Outlet store in Oakley. When his wife was making a meatloaf dinner, he says she found glass while she was mixing the meat with seasoning and eggs. A piece of the glass actually cut his hand.

"She started to tear the meat apart and found little glass beads about this big," he said. "You could tell it went through a meat grinder at some point, because it was all charred up and smooth. They were all pretty consistent and about the same size."

A Grocery Outlet spokesperson says the company does not package the product and it has removed the meat from all 220 of its stores.

Harris Ranch is having an independent lab test the beef. It says glass isn't allowed in its processing facility.