LUDHIANA -- Following the complaints of patients in local hospitals and jail inmates, the district health department conducted raids at 16 hospitals and 2 jails in the city on Saturday. Panic was spread among the hospitals authorities when the health department team conducted a surprise visit and collected 18 food samples.

Quinault Tribal Enterprise of Taholah, WA is recalling all canned seafood products including all Salmons, smoked and non-smoked; Tuna, smoked and non-smoked; Smoked Sturgeon; Minced Razor Clams; smoked Razor Clams; and smoked Steelhead. The canned seafood products are being recalled because they were not adequately processed according to the U.S.

Ron Swanson is one of the better characters on the TV sitcom, Parks and Recreation. On the April 21, 2011 episode, in the first minute of the clip below, Swanson is asked if he’d ever eaten a turkey burger and he said, “"Is that a fried turkey leg inside a grilled hamburger? If so, yes. Delicious."

Third party audits of produce are relatively new phenomena. Fueled primarily by the retail sector’s demands for safe year-round supplies of fresh fruits and vegetables, there is a serious industry-led effort underway to evaluate primary production and the resulting supply chain.

The city of Minneapolis inspected 771 food-related businesses during the three-month period ending in February, up from 592 in the three months before that. I reviewed 1,071 food-safety inspection reports to identify the 10 businesses with the highest number of critical violations during that time.

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