News Flash: Whole Foods Recalls Ground Beef

The Canadian Food Inspection Agency (CFIA) has distributed Whole Foods recall alert for ground beef. This is a voluntary Whole Foods recall, and affects ground beef purchased between June 2 and August 6, 2008 over E. coli O157:H7 contamination concerns.

This recall affects all of Canada (Toronto, Oakville and Vancouver) as well as Connecticut, Rhode Island, Maine, Massachusetts, Florida, New Jersey, New York, Kentucky, Maryland, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Virginia, Washington D. C., Alabama, Georgia, North Carolina, South Carolina, Tennessee, Illinois, Michigan, Minnesota, Missouri, Nebraska and Wisconsin in the United States.

For more information on the recall, you can see the press release at the Whole Foods site. For more information on this specific strain of E. coli, you can read all about it at the CFIA site.