Allahabad -- Around 200 children, who fell sick after consuming unhygienic food at a feast here, have been admitted to the local hospital after complaints of stomach pain and vomiting. The children, who fell sick after consuming unhygienic food on Saturday evening, ere administered saline water and medical care.

Abstract In order to assess antimicrobial resistance in Listeria monocytogenes, 202 food and environmental isolates from 1996 to 2006 were tested. Only four strains displayed acquired resistance. Resistance to erythromycin, tetracycline-minocycline and trimethoprim was evidenced and genes erm(B), tet(M) and dfrD, already described in L. monocytogenes, were detected.  

PLEASANTON, Calif. -- In cooperation with the Taylor Farms voluntary recall of products containing fresh broccoli, Safeway is voluntarily recalling broccoli salad and pasta salad, both sold at store delis, and two pre-packed vegetable trays that contain broccoli sourced from Taylor Farms.

One of 107 confirmed victims of the recent salmonella outbreak in Australia, 71-year-old Norma Kent, swears she will never eat a Berliner bun again. Having previously survived a heart attack, she says the food poisoning - which included a week in Wakefield Hospital on an intravenous drip - was "far worse" than her heart scare.

A former employee alleges that a Strathroy, Ontario, egg marketing company and others in the province’s egg industry used fraudulent practices that compromised producer profits and consumers’ food safety.

This week, the CDC published their report from the 2008 Salmonella Saintpaul outbreak that sickened approximately 1,500 people, resulted in widespread withdrawals of tomatoes from store shelves, and a month long investigation that ultimately indicated jalapeño and serrano peppers in addition to tomatoes.  This publication is the closest tomatoes will ever come to being vindicated as

U.S. Marshals today seized about $200,000 worth of food products from Bedford Cheese Store Inc. in Shelbyville, Tenn., after U.S. Food and Drug Administration investigators found evidence of rodents throughout the company’s facility.

NHS hospitals may have an annoying voice that chimes up to remind you to "clean your hands with the gel" whenever you walk past a cleansing station, but Finnish company Ekahau has come up with something ten steps further. 

CDC's Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Reports has a short report about 2 plague cases in the US. Plague, while often thought of as a historical disease (Black Death) is alive and well in wild rodents in some areas of the world, including parts of North America, and human cases continue to occur. Here are highlights of the CDC report (in italics) with some extra comments.