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Making people barf can be bad for business. KITV4 News reports a Korean restaurant that the health department temporarily shut down this spring because of an E. coli bacteria outbreak has closed for good. Peppa's Korean Barbeque on King Street closed Friday because its business never returned after bad publicity from an E. coli incident there, according to its owner.

All Samples Test Within Safety Threshold

MOUNTAIN VIEW, Mo. -- The owners of a dairy in Howell County are fighting an order that they  destroy all of their raw milk cheese because it may be contaminated.  The owners of Morningland Dairy say they aren't ready to dump their product and profit down the drain.

ST. JOSEPH, Mo. -- Missouri Gov. Jay Nixon says the state will use a $500,000 grant to fund a pilot program aimed at addressing a nationwide shortage of large-animal veterinarians and veterinary technicians. Nixon announced the agreement Friday between the state's agriculture department and the U.S. Department of Agriculture's Rural Development program.

The Bureau of Microbial Hazards, Food Directorate, Health Canada, in Ottawa, Ontario, has recently established a network of Canadian researchers, regulators, and public health officials with an active involvement in issues related to food and environmental parasitology.  The Food and Environmental Parasitology Network, chaired by research scientist, Dr. Brent Dixon, and co-chaired by Dr.

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Some public health types have long argued there is no point in making outbreaks of foodborne illness public – through media disclosure, for example – when the outbreak has passed or the food is gone and there is no on-going threat to public health. I disagree.

A new report from the American Academy of Microbiology provides a thorough overview of food safety from farm-to-fork, highlighting the many opportunities for disease-causing organisms and other food safety hazards to enter the food supply.