The Restaurant Monitor is a weekly listing of scores for restaurants inspected by the Brazos County Health Department. Inspection scores are on a 100-point scale. Generally, scores below 80 might cause the department to schedule a follow-up visit. A score below 70 results in the suspension of an establishment's health permit.

The European Food Safety Authority (EFSA) and the European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control (ECDC) have published their Community Summary Report on Food-borne Outbreaks in the EU in 2007. It shows that Salmonella remained the most common cause of food-borne outbreaks in the European Union, followed by food-borne viruses and Campylobacter.

Thinking about that slab of tuna just about makes Che Perez's stomach turn. The 40-year-old Sacramento Web designer remembers a scorching July day many summers ago and a barbecue at his cousin's house. The cookout was more like ground zero for gastrointestinal distress.

HONG KONG -- Meat from pigs infected with the new H1N1 virus shouldn't be used for human consumption, the World Health Organisation cautioned on Wednesday, adding it was drawing up guidelines to protect workers handling pigs.