The Agency has published its new Science and Evidence Strategy 2010–15 and Evidence Plan 2010. These set out how science and evidence will be used to improve food safety and the balance of people's diets.

The Food Standards Agency has issued an updated Food Alert for Action for Northern Ireland on smoked mackerel products produced on premises in Northern Ireland not registered with or approved by the district council in that area.

CNBC ran a feature about raw eggs in recipes today that contained some food safety nose-stretchers. On the plus side, the story acknowledged that raw eggs can carry salmonella, and when Catherine Donnelly, a professor of food safety at the University of Vermont. said that adults may get sick from salmonella, but are unlikely to die, the story said,

Some detective stories move forward, one lead taking an investigator to the next, right up to when the case is solved. Then there are times when the detective looks back, picking through a thick file, returning to witnesses for another round of interviews, poring over old evidence with new eyes.

FAYETTEVILLE, Ark. -- A few years ago Billy Hargis’s poultry research laboratory found how to develop probiotics – also known as direct-fed microbials (DFMs) – that would work in the drinking water of chickens and turkeys to fight Salmonella. One of their DFM products was designated as FM-B11 and was licensed to a startup company. It then became a product called FloraMax.

Livestock and poultry groups hosted educational briefings Tuesday on Capitol Hill about antibiotic use in raising food animals two weeks after a CBS Evening News report questioned the practice.

From Fox8:

Erin Stadler was at her baby shower when she at a piece of brie cheese that was contaminated with Listeria. The disease made Stadler and her unborn child deathly ill.

"You don't think about eating one piece of cheese and almost dying. That's basically, what happened for both of us," said Stadler.

"What does (Powell) know about the actions of London politicians and the relationship of the city and the health unit? Probably nothing."

Ernestine Jamison cooks vegetables for her four children every night in their north Houston apartment. But when she opened a bag of Pictsweet frozen cut green beans last month, she found more than just green beans. The Jamison family believes the green and black frozen object nestled in their dinner was a severed snake head.