WASHINGTON (AFP) – Whole Foods Market, the top US organic foods supermarket chain, announced this weekend a voluntary recall of fresh ground beef sold between June 2 and August 6 due to possible infection with E. coli bacteria in several US states.

According the website statement of the company, after seven cases of E. coli infection in Massachusetts and two in Pennsylvania were linked to the product, they recall affects of ground beef sold by Whole Foods.

Whole Foods said this “beef apparently came from Coleman Natural Beef, whose Nebraska Beef processing plant was previously subject to a nationwide recall for E. coli 0157:H7 contamination.”

This second batch of potentially E. coli-tainted ground beef from Nebraska Beef involves relatively modest quantities purchased by Whole Foods Market, said the spokesman of the supermarket chain.

“Whole Foods has begun an internal inquiry after receiving assurances from Coleman Natural Beef that no product delivered to Whole Foods Market was linked to the (previous) recall of Nebraska Beef products”, company spokesperson Libba Letton said.

She told that all tests conducted with the recalled Whole Foods ground beef so far have not detected any E. coli infection.

E. coli bacteria can produce nausea, diarrhea and potentially lethal kidney problems, particularly threatening people with weak immune systems such as the elderly and babies.

In the United States, probable 73,000 cases of E. coli infection arise each year, and almost 60 of those ending in death, according to the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

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