The following established were inspected by the Jefferson County Department of Health from Aug. 10-21. For more information, visit www.jcdh.org. • Jacks, 2259 Mt. Olive Road Road, Mount Olive, 96 • Lisa’s Kitchen, 900 Decatur Highway, Gardendale, 89 • Mike’s Handy Food Mart, 439 Decatur Highway, Gardendale, 97

OTTAWA -- The Canadian Food Inspection Agency (CFIA) is warning people with allergies to almond, egg, milk, peanut and soy not to consume the Lotte brand snack foods described below. These products contain allergens which are not declared on the label.

Recent food sampling carried out by Cannock Chase Council's Environmental Health team at a butcher's shop in the District revealed E.coli bacteria contamination. Samples including cooked meats, a cleaning cloth and environmental swabs taken from weighing scales revealed poor hygiene standards at Cannock Butchers in Cannock Indoor Shopping Centre in Cannock town centre.

Getting a reputation for dirty conditions or foul food often equates to a death sentence for restaurants. But the Wauwatosa Health Department hopes a new food safety training program will give customers of participating eateries some peace of mind when they walk into those establishments.

MADISON -- Dörte Döpfer's research has very real consequences for public health. "It's a question of life and death," says the University of Wisconsin-Madison veterinary epidemiologist and specialist in the food-borne bugaboo Escherichia coli O157:H7. "Ten of those bacteria can kill a person, especially young children and the elderly."

One in a series of weekly columns of advice by pet experts. Today: Arnold Goldman: We're in the middle of hurricane season, and now is a good time to remember the lessons we learned during Katrina: Emergency planning for pets is crucial.

Just a day after state agriculture officials started setting hundreds of traps in Orange County for an insect that endangers California's $1.6-billion citrus crop, sources say they have found the insect in Los Angeles County. Routine traps captured a single Asian citrus psyllid on a citrus tree at a home in Echo Park on Monday. The insect was identified as a psyllid today.

BOULDER -- Six local farmers might have to wait another year to learn whether Boulder County will let them plant genetically engineered sugar beets on county open-space properties.

CAMBRIDGE, Mass. -– For the first time, Whitehead Institute researchers have shown definitively that mutations associated with prion diseases are sufficient to cause a transmissible neurodegenerative disease. The discovery is reported in the August 27 edition of the journal Neuron.