How strange that as Ottawa announced last week new, large and graphic tobacco warning labels, raw milk proponents were still fighting even to get their product on the market. To be treated like tobacco would be a step up. Our prohibition on the distribution of raw milk may be well-intentioned, but its enforcement seems increasingly unfair and unjust.

Hepatitis A is one of those human-only diseases that spreads when virus particles are shed in poop, and get into dirty water, or onto hands that are not effectively washed. Health officials on Long Island say hundreds of people may have been exposed to hepatitis A while receiving communion on Christmas Day.

Federal health officials teamed up with industry and consumer-group leaders today to talk up the importance of the new food safety law and expressed confidence that it will make a big difference in the long run, even if Congress is in no mood to pay for implementing it.

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The discovery of animal feed laced with dioxin has forced the closure of countless farms and the slaughter of at least 8,000 egg-laying chickens, as German officials on Monday reacted to a widening agriculture scandal.

BEIJING -- The central government will invest more to improve county-level quality inspection centers to ensure food hygiene over the next five years in response to a number of incidents, a senior official said.

Horseman MA et al. – Vibrio vulnificus is a halophilic Gram–negative bacillus found worldwide in warm coastal waters. The pathogen has the ability to cause primary sepsis in certain high–risk populations, including patients with chronic liver disease, immunodeficiency, iron storage disorders, end–stage renal disease, and diabetes mellitus.

The Winter Classic has become a New Year’s Day tradition, soaked in a nostalgia that glorifies frozen fingers, numb toes and emergency dental surgery. It’s hockey, outdoors.