Sunday morning in Brisbane and we went for a stroll to the University of Queensland for a campus-wide open house, largely designed to provide information for high-school students and their parents.

VANCOUVER -- The Canadian Food Inspection Agency is warning the public about possibly contaminated mussels harvested in B.C. The affected mussels, harvested by Salt Spring Island-based Island Sea Farms between July 19 and Aug. 2, may contain diarrhetic shellfish poisoning (DSP) biotoxin.

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Elizabeth Weise of USA Today writes today that with food prices escalating, meat thieves — organized groups who target steaks and high-end cuts at supermarkets for resale to unscrupulous restaurants and markets — are a growing problem. They're also hitting meat lockers, cattle pens and even 18-wheelers.

OMAHA, Neb. -- An Omaha meatpacker denies supplying tainted beef to Cargill Meat Solutions Corp. that sickened dozens of people in 2007. A statement issued Saturday by Greater Omaha Packing Company President Henry Davis says all products shipped to Cargill tested negative for E. coli.

Those of us who choose to drink ''raw’’ milk are a tiny minority – barely more than 100,000 – so why is time and money being wasted trying to stop us?

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