The White County Health Department is being sued by a restaurant they temporarily closed due to a poor inspection. Owners of Mo's Restaurant in Monticello, Indiana, claim that following inspections of their restaurant, health department employees "negligently and/or intentionally prepar[ed] a false and defamatory Food Inspection Report" on three different occasions

This is a first; instead of me asking at a restaurant what medium-rare means -- temperature-wise -- the waitress tonight asked Amy after she ordered lamb chops, "What temperature would you like those at?"I immediately jumped in, blowing my food safety cover, and asked, "You actually have thermometers back in the kitchen?"She said, "Yes

The Manchester Evening News reports that in June 2006, eight people who dined at Fu's restaurant on Manchester Road, Mossley, U.K., suffered food poisoning and contacted Tameside Council environmental health department. Eventually, 12 complaints of salmonella were reported.Environmental health officers visited, and found cooked duck stored in cardboard boxes where raw poultry had been, dirty chopping boards and no cleaning or drying equipment for the hand basin near the staff toilets

Proving once again that fancy food does not mean safe food, Your Local Guardian reports that of the 539 establishments rated in Merton, U.K. this year under the Scores on the Doors rating scheme, supported by the Food Standards Agency, 94 were given a one-star or "poor" rating and 31 were given a no star or "very poor" rating, making a total of 125

More than two decades after Aaron Giles lost his identity bracelet, a meat cutter at Olson Locker in Fairmont, Minn. discovered the shiny object in a chicken gizzard and saw a name, address and phone number engraved on it, and returned it to Giles.Associated Press explains that Giles had lived in Fairmont as a child and played hide-and-seek and other games with his brothers in their grandfather's barn near Sherburn

One year after a three-part investigation by the Edmonton Journal, Karen Kleiss reports this morning that the number of compulsory restaurant closures is up, health regions across the province have adopted minimum standards, and all Albertans can expect to have online access to inspection results by July 1

Nashville, Tennessee's News Channel 5 reviewed state restaurant inspection results and discovered that some of the dirtiest eateries get written up over and over.The news team ended up at the Jade Dragon in Clarksville, one of the worst offenders around when it comes to dirty kitchens; in the last two years, the Jade Dragon has repeatedly failed its surprise inspections, getting scores as low as a 58, 52, even a 47