Q. Will I kill my family if I cook the stuffing inside the turkey?

That's what food writer extraordinaire Kathleen Purvis of the Charlotte Observer asked me last week. Kathleen runs a regular column answering questions from readers, including one about risks associated with paper towel use (from chemical leeching). I told her I didn't know a whole lot about that and couldn't find much evidence to support the perception.

Ciaran Kelly, who ran Kelstar Pizzeria on Shaw’s Road in west Belfast, was fined £1,400 also ordered to pay costs of £66 in relation to the 14 offences which were detected by Belfast City Council’s environmental health staff during visits between September 15, 2010 and January 6, 2011.

An FSIS official said Tuesday that slaughter operators first need to assess controls for pathogen contamination on cattle during dressing procedures to prepare for compliance with USDA’s expanded ban on E. coli strains in raw beef product.

FAISALABAD -- Pakistan can become a leading Halal food market by meeting international standards of Halal - Hazard Analysis and Critical Control Points (HACCP) because the sector has more than two billion consumers worldwide.

OTTAWA -- The Canadian Food Inspection Agency (CFIA) and Ginger Beef Choice Ltd., EST 615 are warning the public not to consume the ready-to-eat Special Combo described below because the product may be contaminated with Listeria monocytogenes.

Six months after 53 people were killed and over 4,000 sickened with E. coli O104 in raw sprouts, the European Food Safety Authority (EFSA) said today that producers of sprouted seeds should tighten safety measures along the production chain. Duh.

NSW Food Authority CEO Alan Coutts has today welcomed a decision in the Local Court to fine GMI Food Wholesalers Pty Ltd, trading as Australia Poultry and Food Wholesalers and its directors $236,000 plus legal costs for supplying pre-cooked chicken that was found to contain Listeria monocytogenes.

ROCKY FORD -- Cantaloupe producers in the Lower Arkansas Valley say their fruit has been world famous for more than 120 years. "And in all those years, we have never had a problem with our cantaloupe. But now we have been harmed by the listeria outbreak in cantaloupe far from here," Chuck Hanagan, a Swink farmer, said Monday.