Paul Schwarz used to eat a lot of cantaloupe, but not anymore. At least some of the melons Schwarz enjoyed for breakfast this summer came from Jensen Farms, the Colorado grower whose cantaloupe contaminated with listeria bacteria have been responsible for the nation’s deadliest food-borne disease outbreak in 26 years.

When a food safety outbreak is first made known, speed is imperative. A good traceback system allows potentially contaminated product to be pulled from the market, keeping consumers safe, and it allows product not implicated to remain in the marketplace, keeping consumers confident in the product.

Since the foot-and-mouth disease outbreak of 2001 in the United Kingdom, there has been debate about the sharing, between government and industry, both the costs of livestock disease outbreaks and responsibility for the decisions that give rise to them.

WASHINGTON -- Windsor Quality Food Co. Ltd., a Los Angeles, Calif., establishment is recalling approximately 11,390 pounds of chicken pot pie empanadas that may contain foreign materials, the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Food Safety and Inspection Service (FSIS) announced today. The products subject to recall include:

Basketball is mind-numbingly dull to watch. But it can be mildly entertaining if players are vomiting. A new study describes a 2010 outbreak involving several NBA teams (that’s the professionals, the ones who aren’t playing and no one notices), the first known report of a norovirus outbreak in a professional sports association.

Red Bull driver Sebastian Vettel won the inaugural Formula One Indian Grand Prix on Sunday, finishing 8.4 seconds ahead of McLaren's Jenson Button, whose team had to fly in replacements from Britain after four members fell sick days before the race.

INDEPENDENCE TWP. -- Milk production at a local dairy has been suspended for the second time this year after bacteria was discovered in a bottle of milk.

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