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The Slovak Legion in Thunder Bay, Ontario (that’s in Canada, and it’s cold) hosted a Christmas meal on Dec. 14, 2010; at least 34 diners ended up barfing. Clostridium prefringens (that’s perfringens – dp) has been identified as the bacteria that caused the illnesses. It was found in the cooked turkey sample and stool samples that were submitted for testing.

Abdul Roshik, who runs the Little India restaurant in Tudor Square, Tenby, (that’s in the U.K.) was fined £3,500 by Haverfordwest Magistrates on December 20th following a 2009 E. coli O157 outbreak that sickened five. However, as reported in the Western Telegraph, no evidence was found to suggest that the restaurant was the cause of the outbreak.

Canadians are well aware that traveling to certain parts of the world, especially the sun-and-sand Meccas of the Caribbean so loved by this country, often means putting up with nasty gastrointestinal infections. Little research, though, has been done on just how much travel contributes to stomach infections that are treated here at home.

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The bulk of the world's fisheries--including the kind of small-scale, often non-industrialized fisheries that millions of people depend on for food--could be sustained using community-based co-management. This is the conclusion of a study reported in this week's issue of the journal Nature.

CTV News reports that during an early morning undercover visit to the Real Canadian Superstore at 3000 Lougheed Highway in Coquitlam, British Columbia (that’s in Canada) a CTV News camera captured footage of an employee in the fish section selecting salmon steaks from the display and putting them behind the counter, where she wrapped them in new plastic.

CASPER, Wyo. -- The debate over regulating home-based food producers will resume later this month when state lawmakers consider legislation that would eliminate government oversight on certain transactions.

Audio clips available at www.inspection.gc.ca/english/corpaffr/relations/indexaude.shtml. The Canadian Food Inspection Agency (CFIA) and Wal-Mart Canada Corp. are warning the public not to consume the Sprouters Northwest brand Deli Sprouts described below because the product may be contaminated with Salmonella.