The Victoria City-County Health Department and its sister organization, the Crossroads Public Health District, inspect places where food is served in Victoria, DeWitt, Jackson and Calhoun counties.

The inspectors said the rooms were "unacceptably dirty" when they carried out spot checks across the university's colleges. At New College a mouse was found eating food from a wheelie bin and dirty work tops were identified. Rats were discovered scurrying around the rear yard outside kitchens at Mansfield and Pembroke Colleges.

A new category of fats in mammalian cells discovered by Agricultural Research Service (ARS) scientists and colleagues may help explain how a harmful toxin called fumonisin causes disease in farm animals.

Backyard chickens seem to be popular now, and we’ve been getting quite a few calls and emails at Cooperative Extension about raising chickens. We don’t have anyone here in the LA office with poultry expertise, so I checked in with our UC Extension poultry specialist at UC Davis, Dr. Francine Bradley.

HA NOI -- Rural women are at high risk of pesticide poisoning and other health damage, a new survey shows. The Research Centre for Gender, Family and Environment in Development, CGFED, estimates from the results of the survey that as many as 20 million people, mostly women aged between 30-39, are regularly exposed to pesticides.

WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. -- While proving a long-held theory that suberin blocks water and nutrient absorption in plants, a Purdue University scientist learned more about manipulating the substance to better feed plants.

After the successful tip-sensitive thermometer verified 145 F leg of lamb for dinner guests on Saturday, I’m back to basics for Memorial Day. Whole wheat rolls from scratch, spinach and tomato salad from the garden, and a roast chicken stuffed with an enormous load of garlic.

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Canwest News Service Philip Ling http://www.canada.com/Health/overworked+meat+inspectors+tell/1629473/story.html The head of the federal food inspectors' union said an outbreak of deadly bacteria traced to ready-to-eat meats might have been prevented if the Canadian Food Inspection Agency had hired twice as many watchdogs.