An E. coli outbreak at a butcher shop is apparently contained. On Tuesday, the Marathon County Health Department cleared Zillman Meat Market in Wausau to resume making sausage and other smoked products. A department spokeswoman says there haven't been any more reports of illness since the problem was reported last week.

DEFRA has agreed to shelve controversial plans to ban the advertising of antibiotics to farmers that would have starved them of vital information to keep their animals in good health.

Guest blogger Dan Ferber is the coauthor, with Paul Epstein, MD, of the upcoming Changing Planet, Changing Health (University of California Press, April 2011), which covers how the climate crisis threatens human health and what we can do about it. His work has appeared in numerous magazines, including Reader’s Digest, Popular Science, Audubon, and Science.

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Who hasn’t made mistakes? Mine are documented in all sorts of ways and places. Resat Gundogdu, a U.K. restaurant owner who was fined £24,000 after E. coli was found in his kebab shop, has now been praised for his impeccable hygiene standards, earning the maximum five stars in his latest Scores On The Doors hygiene inspection.

URBANA – The owner of an Urbana sprouts farm linked to a multi-state salmonella outbreak said he was cooperating with state and federal investigators on finding the source of the contamination. "We're trying to see if we can get to the bottom of this," said Bill Bagby Jr., owner of Tiny Greens Farms of rural Urbana.

On 2010  12 cases of food poisoning was recorded through botulism. 19 people suffered one of whom was a 14 years old child. The poisonings were caused as a result of using homemade souses of red pepper, cucumber, tomato, caviar of eggplant, canned bean in Lori, Kotayk, Aragatsotn, Shirak, Syunik, Gegharkunik, Vayots Dzor regions as well as in Yerevan.

The National reports that every sample of rocket salad leaves tested from 64 shops in Dubai and Sharjah was contaminated with high levels of potentially deadly E. coli bacteria, researchers have found.