The largest U.S. grocery chain, Kroger Co., is voluntarily recalling all ground beef products sold in Michigan and certain Ohio stores between May 21 and June 8 after the meat was linked to an outbreak of illness from E. coli bacteria.

Testing has confirmed beef samples contain a strain of the bacteria that has sickened at least 19 people in Ohio. Another 15 have been sickened in Michigan

The Canadian Food Inspection Agency (CFIA) confirmed Monday it found a cow infected with the deadly mad cow disease in the western province of British Columbia.

The agency immediately started a search for the farm where the infected cow came from even though no meat from the infected animal entered the food chain. It was the 13th case of mad cow disease reported in Canada and the third case in British Columbia in the last three years

A Mediterranean diet which consists of fruits, vegetables, fibre and healthier fats could help protect against Type 2 diabetes, a new study suggests. The diet has already been proved famously beneficial for the cardiovascular system.

Researchers at the University of Navarra in northern Spain studied the eating habits of more than 14,000 Spanish volunteers over four years to see who developed the condition. Their health and dietary habits were then tracked in detail over the following months and years

- In seemingly three separate cases, beef has been recalled in the U.S. and Canada because of likely E.coli contamination.

A recall of meat used in ground beef products was issued Friday for 11 states in the U.S

A federal appeals court judge is pondering whether the Bush administration has the authority to stop meatpackers from testing all their animals for mad cow disease.

The Bush administration made its request on Friday to the court that is considering overturning a ruling that allowed Creekstone Farms Premium Beef of Arkansas City, Kan., to test all its beef for mad cow disease