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Kaytee, a Central Garden & Pet brand, is recalling two products, Kaytee exact® Hand Feeding Formula Baby Birds and Kaytee exact® Hand Feeding Formula Baby Macaw, due to high levels of vitamin D. These products are used primarily by bird breeders for feeding baby birds. Baby birds being fed the formula may run the risk of kidney failure when ingesting the product.

After the product formerly known as "lean finely textured beef" came to be known as "pink slime," it quickly became unwelcome in many grocery stores, school cafeterias and fast-food chains.

The fact that there has been a salmonella outbreak among people who eat sushi isn't super surprising; raw seafood does pose more health risks than cooked fish. But the fact that the fish implicated in the outbreak is something called "tuna scrape" sure got our attention here at The Salt.

The health ministry's planned policy of prohibiting restaurants from serving raw beef liver to prevent food poisoning has been criticized by people in the restaurant industry. Some argue the ban is extreme and have suggested people in the industry will demand compensation for damage caused by the ban from the government.

Eric and Joanna Reuter believe a state and local health department bias against raw dairy products is partly to blame for those agencies initially linking raw dairy to an E. coli outbreak.

Oregon health authorities have confirmed a fifth case of E. coli infection in an outbreak traced to raw milk. All five patients are younger than 15 and three, including a toddler, are hospitalized with acute kidney failure, a complication associated with E. coli O157:H7.

From the what-else-is-in-food file, the Brisbane Times reports that permeate - a watery, greenish waste product from the production of cheese - forms up to 16 per cent of the fresh milk in Australia according to documents obtained by the Herald. The story isn’t new; check out this video from an Australian TV show in May 2008 (see below).

ONE in seven restaurant kitchens failed the food safety and hygiene test in the City of Melbourne last year. The Leader can reveal that 483 food businesses were hit with notices for breaches of food safety and hygiene standards after inspections by council officers, while three ended up in court for serious or repeat offences.