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OTTAWA -- The Canadian Food Inspection Agency (CFIA) is warning consumers not to consume Green Onions described below as they may be contaminated with Salmonella. The affected Green Onions were sold unwrapped with a rubber band. There is no lot code sticker, UPC or product name on the individual bunch of onions.

Rodent droppings, cockroaches and a build-up of rubbish has led four central Sydney (that’s in Australia) restaurants to be prosecuted, fined, and named and shamed on a government register designed to prompt businesses to clean up their act.

The Durham Region Health Department is painting a clearer food safety picture of your favourite restaurants. The DineSafe Durham project has entered phase 2, with the launch of a website. Environmental Health Director Ken Gorman says the information that will be posted is from inspections from March 2009 to June 2010.

Following a letter of concern from some of its shareholders, Costco–one of the largest wholesale food distributors in the nation–has formally begun a ‘sea change’ in its seafood procurement policies.

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The newest food safety infosheet, a graphical one-page food safety-related story directed at food businesses, is now available at www.foodsafetyinfosheets.com Food Safety Infosheet Highlights: - UK Food Standards Agency recently reported the results of a study demonstrating spray of bacteria up to 3 feet from the kitchen sink after poultry was washed.

On July 30, the Cabot, Ark., man died in his sleep at age 63. His widow, Pat Waddle, believes the rare and virulent form of E. coli he contracted from that meal sapped much of the life from him. "He never totally got back to who he was," she said.

Foodies can now go online for inspection results of restaurants and other food service vendors inspected by the Cincinnati Health Department. The searchable database includes inspection results on more than 1,500 licensed restaurants, supermarkets, school cafeterias and other establishments.