http://barfblog.foodsafety.ksu.edu/2009/10/articles/food-safety-communication/supermarket-guru-says-stickers-on-clamshells-a-good-food-safety-idea-to-go/ Here is one way retailers can turn food safety into a competitive advantage, and wrest takeout business from nearby restaurants.

MONTREAL –-Since a listeriosis crisis sent Quebec into a frenzy last fall, you could cut the tension between cheesemakers and the provincial regulator with, well, a cheese knife.

Srinagar -- At least 60 people, including 10 children, fell ill due to food poisoning in Jammu and Kashmir's Baramulla district, police said today. The incident happened yesterday at Krishhama-Kunzar area, 40 km from here, in the district. About 60 people fell unconscious after having dinner at a marriage function there, they said.

TIPTON, IOWA -- It may be crowded and carpeted in manure, but the long, white building beside State Route 38 is one of the most pathogen-free homes a pig could have.

JAKARTA -- Indonesia does not intend to resume sharing bird flu samples with other countries until there is a global mechanism for virus sharing in place, the newly appointed health minister told Reuters on Saturday.

What could be one of the more outrageous fish crimes in Bay Area history - the alleged gillnetting of white sea bass for sale in a restaurant - is going to trial in Marin County after game wardens reportedly caught a man with fish slime on his hands and three 25-pounders at his feet.

The organic food and beverage industry knew it really had a problem when a brand of bottled water labelled itself organic. Chief executive of Standards Australia John Tucker called the organic water claim an absurdity. "That was the straw that broke the camel's back," he says.

Australian farmers may be forced by an international environmental treaty to stop using a dangerous insecticide that more than 60 nations have already banned. Endosulfan has been linked to breast cancer, immunosuppression and birth defects and was recently implicated in a plague of two-headed fish larvae in a Noosa River hatchery.

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