That almost took down Jack in the Box, once they forced their franchisees to adopt HACCP and cleaned up their supply chain, they had to revamp their marketing, a smart move:
Someone who was an ag science major at Cal Poly SLO told me to avoid ground beef from many grocery stores - Safeway being the worst offender. I usually get it from the butcher/Whole Foods or the cyropacked organic stuff from Costco.
I cook the Schmidt out of ground beef in most dishes so usually no issues with the piggly wiggly stuff yet.
I have gotten clearly overaged ground pork and pork sausage the last 2 years, I’m starting to avoid, even had some strange nasty bacon which is extremely unusual.
Dislike cook and toss and no where close to expiration