Almost 200 people from the U.S. and Canada attended last week’s E. coli Conference organized by the North American Meat Processors Association with the support of the Beef Industry Food Safety Council and in collaboration for the first time with USDA’s Food Safety and Inspection Service.

OTTAWA -–The Government of Canada today released guidance documents to help schools, daycares and post secondary institutions prepare for back to school during the H1N1 flu virus pandemic.

FireKeepers Casino authorities declined to let county health officials inspect its five restaurants, thus barring public scrutiny of its food safety record.

A dream cruise around the Baltic Sea ended in tragedy when a “happy-go-lucky” Malvern pensioner became violently ill and later died. Mary Smith, aged 67, from Orford Way, was enjoying the holiday with her husband Tony, 71. He said she was diagnosed by the onboard doctor with having the norovirus which left her confined to her cabin.

The first hard evidence of what is happening physiologically inside bees during Colony Collapse Disorder (CCD) has been published in a new study by Agricultural Research Service (ARS) and University of Illinois scientists in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. The study also looked at differences in activity levels of critical genes in CCD and healthy bee colonies.