Let’s get the ick factor out of the way, since the producers of the show are clearly proud of it. Here are some lines from the first two episodes of “Monsters Inside Me” on Animal Planet:

“So what was wrong with the Caesar salad?

Yesterday, the USDA Food Safety and Inspection Service issued a largely useless, but still widely published, news release entitled “Independence Day: Drills for the Grill.” See News Release, www.fsis.usda.gov/News_&_Events/NR_062909_01/index.asp While notable for a cheery and reassuring tone, the information provided is, at best, unhelpful, and, at worst, is dangerously mislea

Monday was a routine day for Grant Di Mille and Samira Mahboubian, the owners of the Street Sweets food truck, a mobile trove of croissants, cupcakes and cookies that got rolling last month.

The couple loaded the truck by 6 a.m., parked in front of the Museum of Modern Art at 7, traded hostilities with other vendors from 9 a.m.

The claims about the dangers of the chemical bisphenol-A, or BPA , get a skeptical look in a report by a nonpartisan, nonprofit group, STATS.

The chemical is in hard, clear plastic bottles and the liners of canned goods.

ANN ARBOR -- Researchers at the University of Michigan have devised a microscale tool to help them understand the mechanical behavior of biofilms, slimy colonies of bacteria involved in most human infectious diseases.

Most bacteria in nature take the form of biofilms.

CANTON -- Amid the flea-market sprawl of used crockpots, 12-packs of men's work socks, rhinestone-studded cowgirl boots and outgrown tricycles are crates, cages, boxes and pens with thousands of nearly every creature imaginable.

Baby alpacas, litters of kittens, squealing pot-bellied pigs, calves and ponies, hundreds of rabbits, geese, ducks, chick

BOSTON -- Salmonella concerns have prompted Dunkin' Donuts to temporarily stop serving Dunkaccinos and hot chocolate.

The coffee chain is withdrawing all hot chocolate and Dunkaccino beverages because equipment used at a supplier's facility was contaminated with salmonella, the company said in a statement.

"We have confirmed that no

The number of food safety recalls has surged in the past six months, with 29 products having been recalled.

Large manufacturers, including Cadbury, Campbell's Soups Australia and Smith's Snackfoods, have been among those recalling products.

Microbial contamination such as listeria and salmonella, failure to declare common all

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