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Montreal, Quebec -- On November 22, 2010, at the Montreal Courthouse, the company Les Aliments Rose Hill Inc., located in Ville Saint-Laurent, pleaded guilty to two counts of violating the Meat Inspection Act. The Court of Quebec ordered the company to pay a fine of $1000 for each count.

Don’t take your snake on the subway. That’s what Melissa Moorhouse of Allston, Mass. discovered after her three-foot boa slithered away from under her scarf and around her neck on the Red Line between the Broadway and Andrew stations in Boston. Penelope the snake was discovered two weeks later in a subway car at the JFK/UMass station.

MIDDLETOWN -- About 30 people who attended a Silver Lake Fire Department event Saturday night in the Town of Wawayanda showed up in doctors’ offices the next day with symptoms that were likely caused by food poisoning, say Orange County Health Department officials.

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Abstract:  Bio-terrorism is not a new term for scientists. Post 9/11 the United States of America, as well as other countries which have grown well economically and countries undergoing the metamorphosis to developed nations, are under serious threat of bio-terrorism.

The Food Standards Agency has welcomed new guidelines on the diagnosis and assessment of food allergy in children and young people. The guidelines have been published by the National Institute for Clinical Excellence.

With meat consumption rising worldwide and poultry meat the most popular by far, there is pressure to increase production. This must be done alongside commensurate improvements in animal welfare. Today ( 22 February ), researchers describe an ingenious small-scale camera and computer set-up that is poised to improve the welfare of farm animals including, in particular, broiler chickens.

Food safety professionals need to break with tradition and to be more imaginative and creative in dealing with food safety issues, Frank Yiannas, vice president for food safety for Walmart, told the 750 delegates at the Global Food Safety Conference in London at its closing session on Friday.