The U.S. Department of Agriculture's (USDA) Food Safety and Inspection Service (FSIS) and the Omaha Beef Company, Inc., a Danbury, Conn., firm, are voluntarily recalling approximately 1,680 pounds of ground beef products that may be contaminated with E. coli

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has issued more information on the voluntary recall of green leaf lettuce initiated by The Nunes Company, Inc., of Salinas, California.

Nunes tells FDA agents that the lettuce, distributed under the Foxy brand, was irrigated using water contaminated with the E. coli virus

A University of Nebraska-Lincoln student who was hospitalized after eating E. coli-tainted spinach is suing the companies which distributed the vegetable and the store that sold it.

The lawsuit says that Kenzi Clark developed acute gastroenteritis after eating spinach produced by the Dole Food Company and sold at a SunMart store in Lincoln.

Clark was in the hospital for four days. Her attorney, Chad Wythers, tells The Associated Press that tests are being conducted to see if the infection will have any lasting damage to her body

There is yet another food scare in the Salinas Valley. Not even a week after federal warnings of spinach grown in the area had Americans on high alert, a brand of green leaf lettuce from the same region has been recalled on worries of contamination by E. coli.

Apparently, the move is a precautionary measure; the water used in the irrigation process for producing lettuce at the farm-site was found to contain E. coli

Purdue University Researchers are developing two inexpensive technologies, which will prevent food born illness like E. coli in contaminated spinach.

Both technologies will be used together and able to detect plus eradicate food born pathogens