As a veterinary student at Kansas State University, I hear quite a bit about the growing demand for food animal veterinarians. With the increasing cost of tuition for vet school, it’s understandable that many of my colleagues are choosing to specialize in small animal medicine to help pay off school loans.

Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack announced Friday that USDA had taken the first step toward implementing a plan to address veterinary shortages throughout rural America by repaying the student loans of qualified veterinarians in return for their services in areas suffering from a lack of veterinarians.

Throughout 2010 and part of 2011, the EU will for the first time that comprehensive review Sweden's food control. EU Audit Institutions Food and Veterinary Office, FVO goes through how the Swedish monitoring compliance with EU rules and follows the multi-annual national control plan. The audit includes food inspection, food inspection, monitoring animal health and welfare and plant health.

Tomorrow’s USA Today talks about the new school lunch rules coming from the U.S. Department of Agriculture by this summer (sorry, kids already in school).

It’s norovirus season. The highly contagious and often foodborne pathogen has restricted travel in and out of a North Carolina retirement residence. 80 residents and 50 staff members of the Croasdaile Village Retirement Community in Durham N.C. have been stricken with the virus leading to the local health department to reportedly set up a quarantine situation effective until Feb 28.

barfblog is a reasonably OK name for a blog. At the time we didn’t know we’d be going up in Google searches against BARF – the ridiculously inaccurately named biologically appropriate raw food diet for pets.

PALM COAST -- Health workers in Flagler County said they do not think food poisoning is to blame for an illness otubreak that sent more than a dozen people to the hospital. Four Rymfire Elementary students are spending their Valentine's Day on the couch.

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