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June 2009

  • Posted: June 25th, 2009 - 5:05pm

    PROSSER, Wash. -- Diners at a restaurant in Prosser were startled Monday when a furry marmot wandered through the front door and settled into a corner.

    Date Published: 
    25.jun.09
    Source Title: 
    Associated Press
    Wacky and Weird  |  Comments
  • Posted: June 25th, 2009 - 5:04pm

    A mother who has won compensation for her nightmare Caribbean holiday is relieved her two-year-legal battle is over. The teaching assistant, 48, from Crayford, who does not want to be named, was one of more than 500 British tourists who won a settlement of over £2.5million, having been struck down with a stomach bug at their luxury Dominican Republic hotel.

    Date Published: 
    25.jun.09
    Source Title: 
    Bexley Times
    Norovirus, Salmonella  |  Comments
  • Posted: June 25th, 2009 - 5:02pm

    A family from Broadstairs has finally received compensation two years after a holiday from hell. Tracey Chambers and her relatives were among 500 British tourists who stayed at a hotel that was plagued by illnesses.

    Date Published: 
    25.jun.09
    Source Title: 
    Thanet Times
  • Posted: June 25th, 2009 - 4:47pm

    Date Notified To FSANZ: 25 June 2009 Food Product: Ready-To-Eat-Meat Name of Product: Roast Beef Package Description & Size: cryovac packets, 300 – 400 gram Use By Date: 02.07.09 Australian Distribution: Queensland only Overseas Distribution: Nil Reason for Recall: Microbial –Listeria monocytogenes Comments:

    Date Published: 
    25.jun.09
    Source Title: 
    FSANZ
    Listeria  |  Comments
  • Posted: June 25th, 2009 - 4:44pm

    Downtown at the Clock Tower Facility type: Full-service restaurant Inspection type: Routine Inspection date: June 11 Critical violations: 1 Noncritical violations: 1 # The handwashing soap dispenser behind the bar area was not working correctly. Level: Noncritical

    Date Published: 
    25.jun.09
    Source Title: 
    News Leader
  • Posted: June 25th, 2009 - 4:42pm

    New Delhi -- Even as genetically modified brinjal—the first transgenic food crop to be available in India—has reached the final stage of field trials, scientists at the Centre for Cellular and Molecular Biology (CCMB), a prominent Hyderabad-based research institution, have taken the first steps to steer genetically modified (GM) fish—now confined to their labs—to Indian

    Date Published: 
    24.jun.09
    Source Title: 
    livemint.com
  • Posted: June 25th, 2009 - 4:40pm

    LOS ANGELES -- A U.S. appeals court on Wednesday left in place an injunction barring Monsanto Co from selling its Roundup Ready alfalfa seed until the government completes an environmental impact study on how the genetically modified product could affect neighboring crops.

    Date Published: 
    24.jun.09
    Source Title: 
    Reuters
  • Posted: June 25th, 2009 - 4:40pm

    SASKATOON, Saskatchewan -- Canadian farmers oppose the introduction of genetically modified wheat until market conditions change, a Canadian Wheat Board survey has found.

    Date Published: 
    25.jun.09
    Source Title: 
    Reuters
  • Posted: June 25th, 2009 - 4:39pm

    Southern Gardens Citrus has planted the first research field trials of potential canker and greening disease-resistant citrus trees in its Hendry County citrus groves. The trees, noted to be resistant to canker and greening in the lab, were planted in small plots to determine if the trees are disease resistant under commercial grove conditions.

    Date Published: 
    25.jun.09
    Source Title: 
    USAg Net
    Plants  |  Comments
  • Posted: June 25th, 2009 - 4:37pm

    In a recent study by pesticide toxicologists at UP Los Baños, the injection of neonicotenoid pesticides such as thiametoxam, imidachloprid and clothianidin in coconut trunks was found safe and effective in controlling the coconut leaf beetle (Brontispa longgisima).

    Date Published: 
    24.jun.09
    Source Title: 
    UPLBRDE News
    Pesticides  |  Comments
  • Posted: June 25th, 2009 - 4:36pm

    Administrative Publication No. (AP-037) 53 pp, June 2009

    Date Published: 
    25.jun.09
    Source Title: 
    USDA ERS
    Animals  |  Comments
  • Posted: June 25th, 2009 - 4:35pm

    In a wood near you, powerful microbes quicken the decay of fallen tree branches. These adroit decomposers perform that essential role by producing specialized enzymes.

    Date Published: 
    25.jun.09
    Source Title: 
    ARS News Service
    Plants  |  Comments
  • Posted: June 25th, 2009 - 4:33pm

    Scientists in Canada and around the world are racing to find a way to stop a destructive fungus that threatens to wipe out 80 per cent of the world's wheat crop, causing widespread famine and pushing the cost of such staples as bread and pasta through the roof.

    Date Published: 
    25.jun.09
    Source Title: 
    Ottawa Citizen
    Plants  |  Comments
  • Posted: June 25th, 2009 - 8:50am

    A public health student at Kansas State passed along this story from 9NEWS.com about Urban Hens, a Boulder, Colorado-based group that is working with the Children, Youth and Environments Center for Research Design at CU and a private grant to supposedly help teach sustainability to children by placing chickens near neighborhood and school gardens.

    Date Published: 
    24.jun.09
    Source Title: 
    barfblog
    Salmonella  |  Comments
  • Posted: June 25th, 2009 - 8:48am

    Novella Carpenter has one word of advice for first lady Michelle Obama: chickens. Carpenter, author of Farm City: The Education of an Urban Farmer (Penguin, 269 pp., $25.95), was gardening in the inner city years before the Obamas turned sod in March for their vegetable garden at 1600 Pennsylvania Ave.

    Date Published: 
    24.jun.09
    Source Title: 
    USA Today
    Animals, Plants  |  Comments
  • Posted: June 25th, 2009 - 8:46am

    Consumers should not eat certain packages of Kowalke Organics packaged alfalfa spouts because of possible salmonella contamination, California public health officials said Wednesday. Mike's Produce Inc., which does business as Kowalke Family Sprouts of Culver City, has voluntarily recalled several raw alfalfa sprouts products, including packaged dinner salad and onion mix.

    Date Published: 
    24.jun.09
    Source Title: 
    San Francisco Chronicle
    Salmonella  |  Comments
  • Posted: June 25th, 2009 - 8:45am

    In the United Kingdom, 387 tonnes of antimicrobial drugs were used, in 2007 in veterinary medicine, for food producing animals and for companion animals. Eighty nine per cent was given via the oral route, mainly in feed premixes or drinking water medication and 10% by injection.

    Date Published: 
    24.jun.09
    Animals  |  Comments
  • Posted: June 25th, 2009 - 8:44am

    WASHINGTON -- JBS Swift Beef Company, a Greeley, Colo., establishment is recalling approximately 41,280 pounds of beef products that may be contaminated with E. coli O157:H7, the U.S. Department of Agriculture's Food Safety and Inspection Service (FSIS) announced today. The products subject to recall include:

    Date Published: 
    24.jun.09
    Source Title: 
    USDA FSIS
    E. coli  |  Comments
  • Posted: June 25th, 2009 - 8:43am

    WASHINGTON -- Laxson Provision Company, a San Antonio, Texas, establishment, is recalling approximately 350 pounds of a cervelat sausage product that may be undercooked, the U.S. Department of Agriculture's Food Safety and Inspection Service (FSIS) announced today. The following products are subject to recall: [View Labels]

    Date Published: 
    24.jun.09
    Source Title: 
    USDA FSIS
    E. coli  |  Comments
  • Posted: June 25th, 2009 - 8:42am

    New Zealand's meat industry could miss out on opportunities for international growth and lose out to rivals if it does not change its ways, a Government study says.

    Date Published: 
    25.jun.09
    Source Title: 
    New Zealand Herald
    Animals  |  Comments