LUBBOCK, TX -- The City of Lubbock Health Department is warning patrons who ate at the Cheddar's restaurant on the South Loop in the last two weeks to see their doctor. That's after a former employee with the restaurant tested positive for Hepatitis A.

Las Vegas, NV -- It's a case of Deja Vu in the latest Dirty Dining. For the third time, Contact 13 visited a Valley buffet facing major violations. It's New China Buffet on East Flamingo, near Maryland Parkway. Contact 13 first stopped by in June of last year, when the restaurant was shut down with 70 demerits.

Always tragic. Wisconsin and Green County officials are trying to track down the source of an E. coli outbreak that has claimed the life of a 20-month-old girl and has sickened eight others.

Jensen Farms, of Holly, CO is voluntarily recalling their shipments of Rocky Ford whole cantaloupe because they have the potential to be contaminated with Listeria. The company is working with the State of Colorado and the FDA to inform consumers of this recall. L.

MINNEAPOLIS — Issues that led Cargill Inc. to undertake one of the largest U.S. meat recalls ever last month were confined to the Minnesota agribusiness giant and don’t indicate broader problems in the ground turkey industry, a top federal food safety official said Wednesday.

WASHINGTON -- Federal officials are doing a poor job monitoring how antibiotics are used by livestock producers, making it impossible to properly examine the development of bacterial resistance to the drugs and the impact on Americans, according to a Government Accountability Office report.

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) announced today a streamlined, integrated approach to effectively and rapidly respond to human and animal foodborne illness outbreaks: the FDA Coordinated Outbreak Response and Evaluation (CORE) Network.

Although no successful attacks on the US agriculture and food system have been reported in the past decade, the nation's efforts to defend the system came in for a barrage of criticism yesterday about a lack of coordination and various other shortcomings.

The director of the Farm Service Agency in Otero and Crowley counties told the Peublo Chieftain an ongoing investigation into ties to a listeria outbreak and Rocky Ford cantaloupes will show that the contamination did not come from the Lower Arkansas Valley.