The U.S. Department of Agriculture has issued a public health alert for beef used by the Kebab Shop restaurants in Texas, California and Florida. It has been tied to cases of E. coli, a type of food poisoning.
The ground beef was produced on Jan. 6 by Olympia Food Industries in Illinois and supplied to the Kebab Shop locations in those three states. The beef was used in the beef kofta, a meatball-like kebab.
The Texas Department of State Health Services has not issued an alert about local E. coli cases tied to the beef kofta or noted any Texas cases. Central Texas has six Kebab Shop locations — in downtown Austin and the Mueller and Great Hills neighborhoods, and Georgetown, Round Rock and Pflugerville,…