CBS News did a puff piece tonight on probiotics and somehow equated the beneficial bacteria in fermented products like yoghurt with the bacteria found in raw milk. I'm not sure salmonella, campylobacter, listeria and E. coli O157:H7 would count as probiotics. I'm not sure the kids sickened in all the outbreaks linked to raw milk would think they got a load of beneficial bacteria

Eurosurveillance reports today on an outbreak of Salmonella linked to raw alfalfa sprouts in summer 2007 in Sweden, which sickened at least 51 people.Almost two years ago, Salmonella in mung bean sprouts sickened 650 Ontarians.Kingston, Ontario, was ground zero for the great Salmonella sprout outbreak of 2005

David Novak, the 54-year-old chairman, chief executive officer and president of Louisville, KY-based Yum! Brands said in a Restaurants and Institutions Q&A that the take-away lesson in his new book, Education of an Accidental CEO: Lessons Learned from the Trailer Park to the Corner Office, that"the key to growing is to be an eager learner

Several media outlets are reporting that 20-month-old Jaycee Burgin, of Newport, Tenn., died just before 11:00 p.m. Tuesday at the University of Tennessee Medical Center due to an E. coli infection. She was diagnosed with the infection on October 9.Officials with the East Tennessee Regional Health Department said Wednesday the source of Jaycee's infection has not been confirmed

Despite being universally panned by critics and avoided by moviegoers, I finally saw Larry the Cable Guy: Health Inspector while editing news the other night. Sure it's terrible and deserves its #87 ranking in IMDb's Bottom 100, but it has some food safety moments.When Larry's partner, Amy Butlin, asks, "How did you become a health inspector? I mean working for the government, it sounds so exciting?"Larry responds:"Well, I gotta tell ya, Keepin people from blowin' chunks and crappin' on themselves is pretty much all I've ever been good at

Hoja Informativa de la Red de Seguridad Alimenticia: Lávese las manos y prevenga el NorovirusThat means that iFSN has started a trial translating weekly food safety infosheets into Spanish. They will be available at http://fsninfosheetsesp.blogspot.com/.Let us know what you think:bchampan@uoguelph

US Food Safety and Inspection Service is co-hosting a public meeting on non-O157 E. coli tomorrow.FSIS's press release from October states: "Currently only one strain, E. coli O157:H7 is considered an adulterant in meat. The CDC has reported an increase in the number of non-O157:H7 Shiga toxin-producing E

Healthinspections.com is reporting that a Dairy Queen in Daytona Beach was  fined $900 for repeated problems such as untrained employees handling food and foods held at dangerous temperatures.Based on a review of thousands of health inspections in 12 cities, Dairy Queen has one of the worst records in the fast food industry, often with critical violations that have not been corrected since the last inspection