The new role of Chief Food Safety Officer (CFSO) brings to the CFIA a more holistic approach to achieving the Agency’s food safety objectives.

Snakes shouldn’t be on a plane. And 50 of them shouldn’t be living with young kids (or anyone). City officials in Albuquerque, New Mexico, say three kids, ages 8, 6 and 2, along with their mother, were found on Monday living with more than 50 live snakes and some lizards.

BEIJING — Businessman Yan Yongxiang was trying to get around stiff U.S. levies on imports of cheap Chinese honey. So he sent 15 shipping containers of cut-rate honey to the Philippines, where it was relabeled and sent on to the United States.

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ST. PAUL, Minn. -- Ecolab Inc. announced today that it has entered into a marketing agreement with DuPont to commercialize new antimicrobial coating technologies for the food and beverage processing industry that will reduce the risk of environmental contamination by enhancing food facility hygiene.

When I was a student at Truman State University (then Northeast Missouri State) in Kirksville, Missouri, I would have loved to have access to a store like the planned “Near and Far, the Downtown Grocery Store.

World Cup officials Tuesday confirmed there was a mass outbreak of food poisoning among volunteers at a world cup venue earlier this month. Ninety volunteers were treated for food poisoning after eating breakfast on June 18th in Nelspruit. Officials say all the volunteers were back to work the following day and the food service provider was changed after the incident.

Date:  June 29, 2010 Contacts:  Jennifer Walsh, Media Relations Officer Luwam Yeibio, Media Relations Assistant Office of News and Public Information 202-334-2138; e-mail <news@nas.edu>

The Centre for Health Protection (CHP) of the Department of Health has received 14 more reports of suspected food poisoning cases involving 38 people who had consumed food purchased from a restaurant in Jordan. Same as the earlier clusters, those persons ate food from the restaurant on June 26 or 27.