[Nathans_Dad]

Meat is a relatively rare cause of bacterial food poisoning, unless it is ground and/or refrigerated improperly.

As noted above, salad and fresh fruits/vegetables outweigh meat on the scale by many-fold.

As for the butcher shop, it sounds like he was just trying to do the right thing by offering to refund your money. Try going to the butcher shop at the local Piggly Wiggly and get your money back...

Bummer that you got food poisoning, but I'm not sure tracing it back to a source in this case will be very fruitful. It would be different if you had eaten at a salad bar or restaurant, that is likely a food prep issue. Unless you ate the veal almost raw, most surface bacterial would be killed by the grilling process. That leaves the interior of the meat, which as noted above isn't usually very contaminated unless the meat was ground up beforehand.

Score one for the bacteria...