CARLSBAD — Subway, 2521 S. Canal St., Unit C, was inspected by the State of New Mexico Environment Department on June 24, 2010. The facility received an approved rating with no training or follow up inspection required. The following information is from the report filed by the department. No high-risk violations were found.

When someone says Australian boarding school, all I can think of is the highlarious television show, Summer Heights High. Some researchers from Canberra report in the current issue of Foodborne Pathogens and Disease about an outbreak of Campylobacter jejuni gastroenteritis at an Australian boarding school.

At pretty well every conference or meeting I went to in 2008 and 2009 I was given a reusable grocery bag. A decent registration gift to hold programs, promotional materials and goodies – that served some post-meeting utility as well. Not a bad replacement for the laptop bags that were ubiquitous in the five years before.

The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) will have more than 500 comments from the public to sift through when it begins the challenging task of writing regulations to make produce safer.

The Food Standards Agency has released the latest results of its quarterly tracker survey, which monitors public opinion and awareness of the Food Standards Agency and key food issues.

OTTAWA -- The Canadian Food Inspection Agency (CFIA) and G. Brandt Meat Packers Ltd. are warning the public not to consume the Brandt headcheese products described below, because they may be contaminated with Salmonella. All flavours of Brandt Headcheese products, bearing Establishment number 164 and purchased up to and including July 21, 2010, are affected by this alert.

A local salmonella outbreak affecting 26 people, one of whom had to be hospitalized, has put food safety high on the public agenda. The Kenosha County Health Department last week closed the Baker Street restaurant, 6208 Green Bay Road, because some of those who became sick had eaten there. The restaurant reopened Tuesday with the Health Department’s blessing.

A 42-year-old Italian woman was reported as the second ever case of mad cow disease in humans in the country and is currently hospitalised in desperate conditions, the ANSA news agency said on Wednesday.

CHICAGO -- Many people like the taste of raw – as in unpasteurized – milk. The problem, of course, is that germs may infect raw milk, so food safety regulations require that commercial milk producers heat-treat their product. But food scientists at Louisiana State University think they’ve stumbled onto a tastier way to sterilize milk. They bombard it with sound waves.