As a Canadian citizen with permanent U.S. residency living in Australia, I get confused. Even with a language professor by my side, I can barely understand a damn word anyone says – especially the Canadians.

LIMA, Peru -- Peru’s Health Ministry says food donated for a nutrition program became contaminated with pesticide in an Andean hamlet and poisoned 89 children and five adults. Three children have died. The ministry says the National Food Assistance Program distributed the food at a school in Redondo. The hamlet is 310 miles (500 kilometers) northwest of Lima.

PARKER - The family of a woman who died from Listeria says they thought she had the flu at first before she began to get worse and died three weeks later. The Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment now confirms two people, including 48-year-old Shelly Occhipinti-Krout, have died from the Listeria outbreak in Colorado.

State and local public health laboratories have improved their ability to identify and report infectious disease and chemical threats, and health departments are making steady progress in readiness planning, such as deploying medicines and other supplies, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) said in a report today.

A onetime city inspector who lives in Burr Ridge was supposed to make sure people in the Illinois food business knew the standards for handling food and keeping it clean. Instead, Maryanne Koll pocketed nearly $80,000 in bribes in exchange for handing out bogus certificates to at least 531 people who skipped classes or failed an exam, a federal judge has found.

Overview The Authority's helpline can respond to queries and complaints about food safety and labelling in NSW. Helpline hours: 8.30am to 5.30pm Monday to Friday. Phone: 1300 552 406. A voicemail service will record messages left after hours for attention from the next business day. Email: contact@foodauthority.nsw.gov.au Fax: 02 9647 0026

The Food and Environmental Hygiene Department today (September 19) ordered the temporary closure of the fish portion of a fresh provision shop in Tsuen Wan for thorough disinfection following detection of Vibrio cholerae in a water sample collected from its fish tank.

The E. coli O104 outbreak that killed 53 people and sickened over 4,000, primarily in Germany, was apparently caused by – nothing.

The source of the recent listeria outbreak was identified last week, but for Dr. Larry Goodridge, only the surface has been scratched when it comes to the questions that need to be answered. »If there had never before been a listeria outbreak traced back to cantaloupe, how did this recent outbreak occur?