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Washington, DC What do we know about E coli and its relationship to beef? By all accounts, not enough to stop beef ecoli recalls. Yet another outbreak of the E coli O157:H7 strain has shown up, this time in Canada.

Suffolk, VA In the first six months of 2007, the US Food Safety and Inspection Service recalled over seven million pounds of red meat. And the number of cases of people getting sick from contaminated beef is growing as fast as E. coli in an overcrowded cattle pen.

Mulino, OR After her ordeal with the beef ecoli recall, Diane will never again buy meat in a grocery store. And for now, she can't even imagine eating another hamburger in a restaurant. "I buy all meat from my butcher now and even though it's more expensive, at least I know where my food is coming from," she says.

Washington, DC On its website, the US Food Safety and Inspection Service reports that, for the last three years, it found 0.17 percent of overall raw ground beef samples tested positive for E. coli O157:H7. That report was updated February 9, 2007, three months before the latest beef ecoli recall that now includes more than six million pounds of ground meat.

Portland, OR Susan Williams prepared meals for her family using Moran's "all natural fine ground beef" for more than a month until she found out about the beef ecoli recall.