Timothy's "Your Friendly Neighborhood Bar & Grill" Facility type: Full-service restaurant Inspection type: Risk factor assessment Inspection date: May 19 Critical violations: 1 Noncritical violations: 0 # The prep cutting board surface had heavy staining. Level: Critical Details: Clean and sanitize

Furrow diking not only saves water, but reduces irrigation costs to a point where it makes economic sense, according to Agricultural Research Service (ARS) scientists. Furrow diking is a tillage system where soils are plowed into ridge-like barriers running alongside row crops. The ridges hold irrigation and rain water, allowing it to soak into the soil instead of washing away.

Kristina Diamond, policy director of the New Hampshire Public Health Association, writes that  although fears of a swine flu pandemic have faded, this is no time to lose sight of how easily infectious diseases can pass back and forth among humans and food animals.

Despite no new developments in an earlier melon recall, regional television reports have reported L&M’s previous recall of Florida cantaloupe.

WASHINGTON -- Schaller Mfg. Corp. (Schaller & Weber), a Long Island City, N.Y., firm, is recalling approximately 564 pounds of duck leg confit and kolbase sausage products that may be contaminated with Listeria monocytogenes, the U.S. Department of Agriculture's Food Safety and Inspection Service (FSIS) announced today. The following products are subject to recall:

Consumer demand for organic products has widened over the last decade. While new producers have emerged to help meet demand, market participants report that a supply squeeze is constraining growth for both individual firms and the organic sector overall.

If you come across a wedge of Valbert cheese, grab it. Fromagerie Lehmann, in the tiny Lac St. Jean town of Hébertville, has stopped producing this artisanal raw-milk farmhouse cheese, with its earthy aroma and buttery hazelnut flavour. A few kilograms of the award-winning Valbert are left in specialty cheese shops. But after that there will be no more.

WASHINGTON -- The food industry said it is willing to pay some fees to fund the government's food-safety functions, but officials are expected to tell lawmakers today that the money shouldn't be used for safety inspections.

The Agency has published guidance on managing farm manures to help reduce the number of consumers that get food poisoning from ready-to-eat crops. The guidance, and the supporting final Regulatory Impact Assessment, can be found at the links below.