Officials are issuing a recall and public health alert for organic ground beef products. According to the Department of Agriculture’s Food Safety and Inspection Service, the products could be contaminated with E. coli. Some Organic Rancher products distributed to Whole Foods Market locations nationwide are on the alert. While there was no recall or reports of illnesses, food safety officials are worried that consumers could still have some of the ground beef in their refrigerators or freezers. They say that the affected meat, which has the use-by or freeze-by dates of June 19th and June 20th of this year on the packaging, should be thrown out immediately.