OTTAWA -- The public warning issued on June 26, 2012 has been expanded to include additional codes. The Canadian Food Inspection Agency (CFIA) and Phoenicia Group Inc. are warning the public not to consume Alkanater brand Tahina, described below, because the product may be contaminated with Salmonella.

LAS VEGAS -- The Southern Nevada Health District is alerting the public to the risk reptiles can pose in the wake of an investigation into six cases of salmonellosis (a potentially serious intestinal illness) in Clark County related to a multi-state outbreak reported by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).

My southern gentlemanly friend, Hartford Bailey, wrote a decent piece for meatingplace.com. Hart invited me down to Mississippi State University about 2000, I have pictures which involve a lot of cowbell at a baseball game but I can’t seem to find them because, as Hart and I both enter our 50th year, I lose more stuff than I can remember. So here’s the raw Hart.

Last weekend I had the chance to renew my friendship with Sam from Sydney. She’s the communications manager for the New South Wales Food Authority (the state where Sydney is located in Australia), She booked an inexpensive room form me and Chapman and his only girlfriend one ANZAC day back in 2002.