Date Notified To FSANZ: 16 June 2010 Food Product: Eggs Name of Product: Jacobs Well Egg Farm Cage Eggs Package Description & Size: All Sizes and Best Before Dates Australian Distribution: South East Queensland Overseas Distribution: Nil Reason for Recall: Microbial - Salmonella Comments: Jacobs Well Egg Farm Cage Eggs

The Taiwan Food and Drug Administration (TFDA) of the Department of Health (DOH) have supervised health bureaus of various cities and counties to check on masses of glutinous rice wrapped in bamboo leaves and their ingredients for the Dragon Boat Festival since May.

In May 2010, a nationwide excess of infections with the specific monophasic variant Salmonella enterica serotype 4,12:i:- was investigated in France. Subtyping with multilocus variable number of tandem repeats analysis revealed a distinct epidemic strain within this excess.

The province has ramped up the number of restaurant inspections it performs per year in Calgary since a report showed officials were falling far short of their mandated quotas. Regulations require that Alberta Health Services send inspectors to roughly 15,500 of the more than 85,000 food-serving businesses in Calgary.

General Mills said today that a release posted and distributed last night via PR Newswire was a hoax.

Contrary to popular belief, paying a premium price for free-range eggs may not be healthier than eating regular eggs, a new study reports. Scientists found that free-range eggs in Taiwan contain at least five times higher levels of certain pollutants than regular eggs. Their findings appear in ACS' bi-weekly Journal of Agricultural and Food Chemistry.

HARRISBURG, Pa. -- The Department of Agriculture today advised consumers who purchased raw milk from Alvin J. Stoltzfus, of Paradise, Lancaster County, to discard the product immediately because of potential bacterial contamination. Raw milk is milk that has not been pasteurized.

The New York City Health Department published its new restaurant letter-grading rules Tuesday so next month, for the first time, signs bearing A, B or C ratings will be issued to the city’s more than 24,000 restaurants to publicly announce their cleanliness.

Nikki Marcotte, a new student, tries out her translation skills on a piece from French food safety blogger, Albert Amgar. In Conseil National de l’Alimentation’s newsletter No. 13, dated June 11, 2010, we learn about health safety: an increased effort between the three unions of the Groupement National de la Restauration.