Update (July 6): The number of illnesses in this outbreak has risen to 113. The article below has been updated to reflect this new case count. For the third summer in a row, Texas is
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Officials Warn Public of Possible Hepatitis A Exposure at Texas Burger Restaurant
Health officials in Austin, TX, have alerted the public about possible Hepatitis A exposure at a Whataburger restaurant in central Austin after a restaurant employee at the 2800 Guadalupe St. location was diagnosed with the
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SPAM, the Iconic Canned Meat, Celebrates 75th Birthday
SPAM®, the canned meat Monty Python sang about and the meat product whose name is now used to label unwanted bulk e-mail messages, is about to celebrate its 75th birthday. Hormel Foods Corp. is putting
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Letter from the Editor: Austin
This week I was planning on writing about the emerging food safety issues that we will likely be dealing with in 2012.
Then I looked at what I wrote last year and decided my ability