Investigators in Ostersund, Sweden, say they traced a cryptosporidium outbreak that has sickened more than 11,000 residents to a multifamily dwelling in the city's Odensala neighborhood.

Ostersund environmental head Jari Hiltula told Swedish news agency TT, "We've found high levels of the parasite in the connection to this source.

One of Auckland's most famous nightclubs (that’s in New Zealand), a party spot for the rich and famous, has been given the city's worst food hygiene grade - 'E' for eeeww. The Crow Bar on Wyndham St - where Bono from U2 hung out after one concert - is one of just 13 eateries to be awarded the worst possible grade.

New Zealand's biggest baking company is promising compensation to a man who found a cockroach in a loaf of bread. The firm, Goodman Fielder promised compensation to Rob Hemming, but he heard nothing more until the Herald on Sunday got involved. Now the company says it will send him a $60 voucher and a ham, but insists the cockroach was not baked into its bread.

Agriculture and Aquaculture sectors account for 52 percent of GDP in the Mekong Delta region with shrimp and Tra and Basa fish as key export products. Therefore, Tra fish industry has always been committed to improving its products’ quality. Accepted in more than 120 markets

A Jasper County resident died earlier this week from what sounds like shiga-toxin producing E. coli food contamination and health department is investigating other possible cases that might be related to a single family gathering over Thanksgiving weekend.

In May, 2007, five patrons of the Yaman Restaurant in St. Catherines, Ontario (that’s by Niagara Falls) got sick with E. coli.

Pigs tails can kill – and Russia’s health watchdog has seized 25 tons of infected meat destined for the far east. The unlikely cut of meat is a culinary delicacy and the bulk order had been imported from Germany to Khabarovsk and was due to go on sale in city supermarkets.

Providing information about food – or anything else – needs to be layered to meet the needs of individual consumers. Most people don’t care. But some want everything.

I made my first soup ever a few weeks ago.