Listeria is an opportunistic pathogen that causes brain infection, blood poisoning, abortion and death for about 500 Americans and a number of farm animals each year.

Guangzhou police have captured a man who was attempting blackmail after poisoning foods in a local supermarket, the Southern Daily reported. So far, there have been no reports of people poisoned.

The company at the center of the scandal over dioxin-contaminated animal feed has filed for bankruptcy. It is facing criminal investigations and could face civil claims from farms which have been forced to close. Harles and Jentzsch, the company accused of supplying dioxin-contaminated fat to the animal-feed industry in Germany, filed in court for insolvency on Wednesday.

It is often said it is grim up north. But it appears it is rather grubby too. Northern men have dirtier hands than their southern counterparts, a study found. Men in Newcastle have more than four times as many bugs lurking on their palms and between their fingers as those from Birmingham, while the paws of Scouse males are twice as dirty as those of Londoners.

I guess I thought it was cool in high school (and it seems much nerdier now) but I was a member of my school's dance committee. Not the dancing team, but the group that organized the dances. Living in small town Ontario (that's in Canada) there wasn't a whole lot to do on Friday nights so the dances were pretty well attended.

Les produits de pâtisseries tels que les gâteaux à la crème comme les tartes à la crème et les éclairs au chocolat sont souvent impliqués dans des intoxications alimentaires à Staphylococcus aureus.

A two-year study has identified a possible source of a potentially deadly bacteria on vegetable farms. The study also identified  ways to reduce the risk of contamination in leafy vegetables and herbs.

Dioxin levels in eggs reaching the UK from affected German farms were "more than likely" well below levels considered safe, the European Commission has said. About 136,000 eggs had been sent to the Netherlands for processing and a batch was then passed on to the UK for use in food such as mayonnaise and pastries.

Summary Following a request from the European Commission (EC), the Panel on Biological Hazards (BIOHAZ) was asked to deliver a scientific opinion on the revision of the Quantitative Risk Assessment (QRA) of the Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy (BSE) risk posed by Processed Animal Proteins (PAPs)[1].