Five bridges, six schools, 78 roads, and 2,225 rai (880 acres) of farmland are under water in Thailand’s deep South.
Victims of the flooding have been given relief kits that included cans of fish that TOC News described as “rotten.”
Several residents dumped the cans in front of their City Hall in protest.
Thailand’s The Nation reported hundreds of flood victims became sick from apparent food poisoning linked to the donated fish.
The Nation explains that Thailand’s FDA “is studying the legal process on whether to charge the company for violating the law by illegally producing canned fish and other canned food items after its factory was closed by the local public health office due to a substandard production process and producing poor quality products.”
America’s Good Samaritan law protects people that donate food to those in the event it accidentally makes someone sick.
Of course, the law stipulates that the donor cannot consciously and voluntarily offer any food that is 
“likely to be harmful to the health and well-being of another person.”
The manufacturer of the assumedly improperly canned fish “could face a fine of up to Bt30,000 and see bosses jailed for up to three years due to the substandard factory. It could also face a fine of Bt50,000 to Bt100,000, plus jail terms of six months to 10 years for the firm’s bosses for fraudulent food production or fake labeling.”
Nice try, guys. Flood victims deserve safe food, too.
Purpose – This study used a novel video capture system to observe the food preparation practices of 41 consumers – 21 primary meal preparers and 20 adolescents – in a mock domestic kitchen using uncooked, frozen, breaded chicken products, and to determine if differences exist between consumers’ reported safe food handling practices and actual food handling behavior as prescribed on current product labels.
Amy will be cheering for the underdog Baltimore Ravens, because back-up wide receiver and special teams specialist 
On September 3rd, 2008, Montana lost its brucellosis-free status due to two cases of infected cattle. It was a big blow since last February the U.S. Department of Agriculture declared 
Ranchers in Montana and surrounding states are taking action to prevent any further spread of brucellosis. A brucellosis plan of action has been proposed by the
There is also the probability that neither of these species are the ones responsible for the infected cattle. The fact that both the 2007 and the current brucellosis detections have occurred in Corriente cattle, a breed closely associated with brucellosis, has many 
Shoppers at the local grocery told me they were never afraid of getting sick. They said some things had less flavor or color, but the savings was always worth the sacrifice. 
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which a Chinese buffet worker was spied 
As our hostess busied herself preparing desserts and planning her meal, she realized the spiral ham she purchased was too large for her Crock Pot. It would have to be cut to fit (finished product shown at left)..jpg)
I’m always open to trying new foods, but I don’t know if I’m all that interested in eating squirrel. Sure they’re terribly cute with their little hands and bright eyes, but I can’t help but wonder what kinds of diseases they carry. In terms of food I’ve always thought squirrel was more of a roadkill dish..jpg)
“The situation is more than simply a matter of having too many squirrels. In fact, there is a war raging in Squirreltown: invading interlopers (gray squirrels introduced from North America over the past century or more) are crowding out a British icon, the indigenous red squirrel immortalized by Beatrix Potter and cherished by generations since. The grays take over the reds’ habitat, eat voraciously and harbor a virus named squirrel parapox (harmless to humans) that does not harm grays but can devastate reds. (Reports indicate, though, that the reds are developing resistance.)
“If you want to grab your shotgun, make sure you have very good aim — squirrels must be shot in the head; a body shot renders them impossible to skin or eat. (You want to get rid of the head in any event, as squirrel brains have been linked to variant Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease, the human form of 
But my carnivorous mantra doesn’t match the advice of Michael Pollan, author of In Defense of Food—An Eaters Manifesto (right). He says:
Pollan’s recommendations are clever. But some of his other recommendations, like “pay more, eat less,” would offend our African friends, like Olendorrop (right). Olendorrop faces daily challenges in feeding his family. In the semi-arid savannah of the Rift Valley in northern Tanzania, he struggles to raise sheep and goats, grow corn, and survive. He has learned how to use dewormers to keep his livestock healthy. When he uses an antibiotic to treat a sick animal, he doesn’t care about organic food. All of his animals are grass-fed because corn is people food. He can’t go to the supermarket because there isn’t one. He isn’t worried about health claims and ingredients because his food doesn’t have labels. If Olendorrop paid more and ate less, his family wouldn’t survive..jpg)
“It’s certainly true that food purveyors at every level should be scrupulously clean and conscientious about how they handle their food. But it’s patently untrue that farmers’ market prepared foods are unsupervised, at least here in Seattle, where both Mr. Marler and I live. Prepared food vendors are permitted and inspected by the health department. When health inspectors aren’t personally on site, the market managers act as their proxies, checking temperatures and handwashing stations. We’re also required to take classes in proper food handling procedures.”