Europe’s wild boar population is exploding because of climate change and increased biofuel production from corn and rapeseed — crops boars like to gorge upon, David Crossland reported in Der Spiegel. The boar is dear to German hearts, he said, but the attacks by boars have become commonplace.

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Scientists in Japan have bred a non-lethal puffer fish, ending the "Russian roulette" risk of eating "torafugu". The fugu is one of the world's most dangerous foods, thanks to a concentration of anhydrotetrodotoxin 4-epitetrodotoxin in the liver or ovaries that is 1,200 times more lethal than cyanide.

Abstract: Purpose - Thermophilic campylobacters, particularly C. jejuni continue to be the most common cause of acute bacterial enteritis in the Western world. The purpose of this study was to examine the correlation between rates of food-poisoning in England & Wales due to the bacterium, Campylobacter, and the frequency of doorstep delivery of milk.

Origin Agritech Limited, a biotech company based in Beijing, has received the Biosafety Certificate from the Chinese Ministry of Agriculture as a final approval for commercial approval of the world's first genetically modified phytase corn. The transgenic corn is the product of a seven-year study by the Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences.

The Philippine Court of Appeals (CA) in a 21 page decision by Associate Justice Vicente Veloso has recently granted the consolidated petitions filed by the Bureau of Plant Industry (BPI) and Bayer, which sought to nullify the decision made by the Quezon City Regional Trial Court (RTC) banning BPI from granting Bayer's application to use LLRice 62 in the country.

The Health Protection Agency is investigating a number of cases of the gastrointestinal infection E. coli O157 associated with travellers returning from the resort of Benidorm in Spain.

A Cobb County lawmaker has introduced a bill that would legalize the sale of raw milk in Georgia. State Rep. Bobby Franklin said he became interested in the issue after hearing about an October case where state agriculture officials forced Eric Wagoner, who runs the online farmers market Athens Locally Grown, to pour out unpasteurized milk he was delivering from South Carolina.

WASHINGTON -- A now-dropped plan to ban the summer sale of raw oysters from regional waters would have created hardship for Texas fishermen and shrimpers who harvest oysters, lawmakers from the state said.