The Agency's local authority audit reports for Rugby and Tamworth are now available online. The reports focus on the local authority food law services' assessment of the food safety management systems put in place by food businesses.

You can read the full reports as well as further details about the audit programme at Related links

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The sickies stepping forward now number 18 and the Public Health Agency of Canada says people shouldn’t eat Freybe brand headcheese produced by G. Brandt Meat Packers in Mississauga, Ont.


There have been significant strides in the reduction of Listeria monocytogenes (Lm) in the United States and other countries, due to aggressive food and equipment testing and zero tolerance for the bacteria, according to an expert panel at the 2010 Institute of Food Technologists (IFT) Annual Meeting & Food Expo®.

We often host drum circles out on the large lawn where we beat on large animal hides and get into touch with our inner obscure jazz that NPR helps us find. Or Phish live albums. Or not.

In the interest of open and transparent discussion, Ontario public health types are asking the public to sit quietly and obey food safety rules because they are the critical control point when it comes to raw, frozen chicken thingies. Dr. Vera Etches, associate medical officer of health with.Ottawa Public Health (OPH, that’s in Canada) said,

JEFFERSON COUNTY -- At least 40 people in Jefferson County became sick with norovirus this week. The Jefferson County Health Department says they first got a call on Monday, from an office where 13 workers became ill. The workers had all eaten lunch at the same restaurant Friday. By Sunday, all of them were sick with nausea, vomiting, cramps and diarrhea.

Trendy trailers and mobile food vendors are now facing tougher regulations in the city of Austin. Late Thursday afternoon, Health and Human Services subcommittee members approved new regulations to regulate an industry that has doubled in popularity during the past four years.