08.apr.07
Daily Herald (Illinois)
Susan Sarkauskas
http://www.dailyherald.com/news/kanestory.asp?id=299441&cc=k&tc=&t=
Michael Driscoll of St. Charles is a sanitarian for the Kane County Health Department, and inspects restaurants, church kitchens, schools, day-care centers and more. Most of his day is devoted to checking places were food is prepared and served; he also does safety inspections of preschools and day-care centers seeking licenses from the state Department of Children and Family Services.

08.apr.07
U.S. FDA Press Release
http://www.fda.gov/bbs/topics/NEWS/2007/NEW01604.html
The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is urgently reminding the public that contact with baby turtles can pose a serious health risk to infants, small children, and adults with impaired immune systems as they can be natural hosts to Salmonella, a group of bacteria that can cause severe illness and death. Recently, a four-week old infant in Florida died of infection traced to Salmonella pomona, a bacteria that was also found in a pet turtle in the home.

07.apr.07
Globe and Mail
Martin Mittlestaedt
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/RTGAM.20070406.wbisphenolA0407/BNStory/Front/home/?pageRequested=all
Bisphenol A is, according to this story, ingested by practically everyone in Canada who eats canned foods or drinks from a can or hard plastic water bottles.
Now a controversy is raging over the safety of widespread public exposure to the chemical, which is known to act like a synthetic female sex hormone.

06.apr.07
The Exponent Online (Indiana)
Adam Mestemacher
http://www.purdueexponent.org/index.php/module/Section/section_id/3/?module=article&story_id=5239

06.apr.07
The Dispatch Online
Josh Funk
http://www.the-dispatch.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20070406/APF/704063111&cachetime=5
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration was cited as saying Friday it will increase the frequency of investigations at plants that make peanut butter and similar products, saying this year's salmonella outbreak showed peanut butter is riskier than health officials had thought.

02.apr.07
FAO News Release
http://www.fao.org/newsroom/en/news/2007/1000534/index.html
Rome -- Despite substantial progress in global efforts to bring the deadly H5N1 avian influenza virus under control, the disease continues to spread to new countries and to new areas in some countries where containment has not been successful, FAO said today. The virus continues to threaten the lives of people living and working around poultry, while hurting farm incomes and reducing the availability of nutritious food.

30.mar.07
USDA News Release
http://www.nass.usda.gov/Newsroom/2007/03_30_2007.asp
WASHINGTON -– Driven by growing ethanol demand, U.S. farmers intend to plant 15 percent more corn acres in 2007, according to the Prospective Plantings report released today by the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s National Agricultural Statistics Service (NASS). Producers plan to plant 90.5 million acres of corn, the largest area since 1944 and 12.1 million acres more than in 2006.

30.mar.07
New Zealand Herald
http://www.nzherald.co.nz/section/1/story.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=10431733
Two varieties of Kit Kats were recalled today because of the possibility they might contain small pieces of plastic.
The voluntary national recall was announced by Nestle New Zealand, the manufacturer.
The affected products are Kit Kat Caramel 65G and Kit Kat Cookie Dough 65G, with all "best before" dates up to and including February 14 next year.

15.feb.07
from a press a release

13.mar.07
Scientific America
Coco Ballantyne
A new study was cited as showing that brewed coffee contains fiber, but don't give up the whole grains, fruit and veggies yet—or, for that matter, ever.
Scientists already knew that coffee beans were rich in dietary fiber—and now Fulgencio Saura-Calixto and Elena Díaz-Rubio, food scientists at the National Research Council in Madrid, have confirmed for the first time that brewed coffee also contains it.