Haihu, director of Hong Kong Food Science and Technology Association and a professor at the Hong Kong Polytechnic University, writes in this opinion piece that food safety is a global issue. In recent years, incidents of food poisoning and discovery of carcinogens in food products have increased. Of late, an E.

SILVER SPRING, Md., June 17, 2011 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The U.S. Food and Drug Administration and San Diego-based Ocean Harvest Inc., an outlet for salmon, tuna, and other fresh fish intended for raw consumption, and Ocean Harvest president, Minkyu Park, recently signed a consent decree of permanent injunction.

In the category of useless press releases comes a new entry from the U.K. Food Standards Agency, which announced The Co-operative is recalling three types of salad dressing and “notices in its stores will explain the reason for recall.” The Co-operative is recalling all batches of three types of salad dressing because there may be salmonella in one of the ingredients.

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The Snohomish Health District confirms four suspected cases of E. coli found in people who visited the Animal Petting Farm at Forest Park in Everett, Wash. Two adults and two children reported symptoms after visiting the farm on opening day June 4th. One of the children was hospitalized for three days but is now recovering.

BERLIN -- At least 39 people have died from an outbreak in Germany of a killer strain of E coli bacteria but the rate of new infections continues to drop, authorities said on Thursday. The national health centre, the Robert Koch Institute (RKI), added one fatality to its daily report on the enterohaemorrhagic E coli (EHEC) contamination, which emerged in early May.

Pop star Selena Gomez says she’s all better after being treated for food poisoning and exhaustion after becoming ill following her appearance on The Tonight Show With Jay Leno on June 9. "I'm good now, thank you. I'm so much better. I do eat. The problem is I don't eat right. I love everything that's possibly not good for me."

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