The Government’s food safety regulator, the Ministry of Primary Industries, has issued the recall notice on Sept. 1, which applies to certain batches of Go Farming Ltd’s raw – unpasteurised – drinking milk.
The affected products are one litre bottles in baches 32, 33 and 34, with use-by markings of August 18, 20 and 21.
The ministry said the milk is sold online and is collected at the farm or delivered in the Southland and Queenstown regions.
I’ve always told my five daughters, never believe someone who says, trust me.
Same with, believe me.
But who am I to explain.
Practicing one of his favorite things, actor John Krasinski competed in a vomit-off against “The Late Show” host Stephen Colbert on Tuesday (Jan. 5). Previously, the “13 Hours” actor’s wife, Emily Blunt, appeared on the show and took Colbert to task on one of his famous comedic bits.
Stemming from a comedy sketch he did with Steve Carrell, titled “Waiters Who Are Nauseated By Food,” the actor did his best pretend puking during a read-through of the climactic scene from “A Few Good Men.”
As raw goats milk from a Treasured Sunrise Acres in Parma tested positive for cryptosporidium and has been put on hold by the Idaho Department of Agriculture, others continue to hucksterize the safety of raw milk.
Enjoy that crypto, and other bugs.
Who needs testosterone to keep that male libido up after 50?
Canada comes to the rescue again with sex-cereal.
Once confined to raw oysters, the world of aphrodisiacs has now expanded to sex cereal, billed by the Canadian manufacturer as the world’s most passionate cereal and the world’s first gender-based whole food.
“Because at 6:30 a.m. with bleary eyes and breath like a landfill corpse, who isn’t chomping at the bit to get bizzy.”
The Canadian sex cereal bit starts about the 2:40 mark.
Sorry my Australian friends can’t see this.
It’s nice that Colbert is doing the job of Health Canada and drawing attention to food hucksterism.
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Eater summarizes the latest, best take on the on-going horse meat scandal (U.S. fish are next, and, as I told Huffington Post today, if all these big chains with their food-safety-is-first traceability schemes don’t 
know what’s in the products they’re hawking, how are mere mortals and consumers to know?).
Last night on the Colbert Report, Stephen Colbert took on “a story that is rocking the world of meat,” the European horse meat scandal. He goes through the back story of how the scandal spread through Europe with blame landing on Romania and perhaps organized crime. And he is not at all surprised the mob might be involved because, after all, “if you’re going to leave a horse head in a bed, why waste all that good body meat?”
But Colbert doesn’t really understand what everyone is so upset about. As he says, “We don’t feel guilty when we happily consume the rest of Noah’s Ark” — and he also jokes that Europeans are all worried about eating horse burgers “instead of their usual delicacy of pickled sheep brain.” In the end, he proclaims, “There’s nothing wrong with eating horse burgers. Fast food should be made of fast animals.” Scandal over?
Since September, more than 140 outbreaks in the U.S. have been caused by the new Sydney strain of norovirus. It may not be unusually dangerous; some scientists don’t think it is. But it is different, and many people might not be able to fight off its gut-wrenching effects.
The new strain is making people sick in Japan, Western Europe, and other parts of the world. It was first identified last year in Australia and 
called the Sydney strain.
A report by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention states the Sydney strain is now accounting for about 60 percent of norovirus outbreaks.
Sometimes mistakenly called stomach flu, the virus causes bouts of vomiting and diarrhea for a few days.
Every two or three years, a new strain evolves — the last was in 2009. The Sydney strain’s appearance has coincided with a spike in influenza, perhaps contributing to the perception that this is a particularly bad flu season in the U.S.
Norovirus is also the most common cause of food poisoning in the U.S.
Each year, noroviruses cause an estimated 21 million illnesses and 800 deaths, the CDC says.
Seven outbreaks have been confirmed across North Carolina so far in 2013. Years with new strains tend to have the highest numbers of cases because virtually no one has immunity, said Ralph Baric, a 
professor of epidemiology at the Gillings School of Global Public Health at UNC-Chapel Hill.
Noroviruses are more contagious than most viruses. People shed millions of the virus particles in their stool and vomit said Dr. Zack Moore, a medical epidemiologist for the state health department, but it only takes between 10 and 100 particles to infect someone.
“It’s such a common infection because it’s very hardy. It can live on surfaces in the environment if it gets onto them, and the usual types of disinfectants aren’t effective against it,” Moore said. “If there are areas that have been contaminated, you have to use a dilute bleach solution to kill the norovirus.”
CDC says, “proper hand hygiene, environmental disinfection, and isolation of ill persons remain the mainstays of norovirus prevention and control.”
For those infected, there’s really no medicine. They just have to ride it out for the day or two of severe symptoms, and guard against dehydration, experts said.
The illness got the attention of comedian Stephen Colbert, who this week tweeted: “Remember, if you’re in public and have the winter vomiting bug, be polite and vomit into your elbow.”
Eight months after rotting bear meat was discovered in a freezer at the Mandarin Palace Restaurant in Fredericton, New Brunswick (that’s in Canada), the owner has been fined $400 in court.
CBC News reports that Le Binh Tina Tu, 61, who owns the Mandarin Palace, pleaded guilty to charges after the bear meat was discovered in a cooler at the Chinese restaurant during a routine .jpg)
inspection by the Department of Health on Dec. 20, 2011.
An inspection record posted on the government’s website on Dec. 21 said, "Food must be purchased from an approved source. Wild animals are not approved."
I was flattered that Stephen Colbert repeated my advice to American beef processors to reclaim, rather than shun, pink slime.
“We’re here, it’s steer, technically.
“Forget ‘Dude, it’s beef’ from now on it’s ‘Bro, it’s slime.’”
Video here, but not in all countries http://eater.com/archives/2012/04/03/stephen-colbert-on-the-beefstate-governors-pink-slime.php.
The Mandarin Palace Restaurant in in Fredericton, New Brunswick (that’s in Canada), which was closed after rotting bear meat was discovered in a freezer, has reopened after a reinspection by Department of Health on Thursday.
There’s a note on the inspector’s report that says a food course must be completed as discussed with the business owners Johnny and Tina Tu.
"I will be reopened today," said Tu. "I am preparing everything brand new, my chicken balls and my .jpg)
egg rolls."
Tu said she sat down with government investigators to discuss how and why rancid parts of a black bear were found in her restaurant’s cooler. She told The Daily Gleaner she agreed to keep the bear for one of her customers, but the customer later told her to keep the bear.
Tu didn’t know what to do with it and was getting conflicting advice on how to dispose of it.
"I hope everybody understands that I never touched the bear. I didn’t eat it and I wouldn’t serve it to people," Tu said.
Tu said customers know that chicken is chicken and beef is beef.
"They can taste. They know. There’s the difference. I don’t want people to be scared. I didn’t touch anything with the bear," she said.
The Health Department said the condition of the bear meat created a high risk for cross-contamination. Officials told Tu and her husband Johnny — the restaurant’s co-owners — the cooler where the bear was stored had to be stripped bare of its contents and sanitized prior to reinspection. The department also said it would provide information on food-handling techniques and food safety.