It is most commonly referred to as Delhi Belly or Moctezuma's Revenge, but perhaps travellers' diarrhoea should be renamed the Costa Cramps after it was revealed that most holidaymakers fall ill in Spain. A staggering 32 per cent of Britons said they had been unwell while staying on the Iberian Peninsula, compared to just six per cent in Italy and three per cent in Thailand.

In 2003, the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) and the Food Safety and Inspection Service (FSIS) issued a quantitative assessment of the relative health risk from Listeria monocytogenes in 23 categories of ready-to-eat (RTE) foods. The agencies are preparing to update that risk assessment, to incorporate data and information that have emerged since then.

The raw milk debate has been raging throughout the U.S. in various states and counties for several years. Proponents says can cure about every ailment known to man, woman or child, but opponents of raw milk advise consumers about the food safety issues with raw, unpasteurized milk and potential deadly pathogens that can lurk within unpasteurized milk.

An outbreak of food poisoning (emetic syndrome) occurred in three kindergartens (A, B and C) in Berlin, Germany, on 3 December 2007 after an excursion during which food was served. We conducted a retrospective cohort study among the kindergarten children and personnel who participated in the trip. The overall attack rate among the 155 participants was 30%.

My colleague Jim Romahn has started his own blog, Agri 007, and in his latest entry, writes: There appear to be lots of warnings for egg farmers and grading stations that the enforcers are coming, so few are caught and disciplined.

LINS, BRAZIL -- In many ways, JBS, the company that owns the big slaughterhouse here on the edge of town, is still run like a family business.

Chicago -- Consumers' interest and concern over the safety of their food is only going to grow, says Mintel Director, CPG Trend Insight Lynn Dornblaser. In a presentation to the AMI International Meat, Poultry & Seafood Convention and Exposition here on Thursday, Dornblaser pointed out that 63 percent of consumers are concerned about the safety of their meat and poultry.

Las Vegas, NV -- Health inspectors visit every restaurant in the valley from your neighborhood to the Las Vegas Strip. And it's a Strip location that recently faced a not-so-pretty inspection.

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) recently released a set of standards for public health preparedness capabilities to help state and local public health agencies set priorities and strategies in an age of budget-cutting.