Food doesn't have to smell bad to be bad: Most bugs don't change the appearance or change the taste of what you're eating.
Herb Weisbaum of KOMO 1000 News reports that the microorganisms that spoil food are different from the bacteria, viruses and parasites that cause food poisoning.
"Most of these bugs don't change the appearance or change the taste of what you're eating," says the Wellness Letter's Dr. John Swartzberg.
Here's something else a lot of people don't know: Sometimes food poisoning happens very quickly - within a few hours - sometimes it takes a lot longer. So it may not be the last thing you ate that's making you sick.
Donna Taylor of the Stratford Beacon-Herald reports that public health inspectors have been a hot topic surrounding the legislation changes for food inspections at farmers' markets and other special events. Unfortunately many negative statements have been made, most recently in the column written by Bob Reid entitled Home-cooking for Charity Under Siege" in your Thursday, June 22 edition. I would like to comment on some of his points.
The U.S. Department of Agriculture's Food Safety and Inspection Service (FSIS) today celebrated 100 years of protecting consumers by commemorating the Centennial Anniversary of the signing of the Federal Meat Inspection Act (FMIA). 
The Associated Press reports that a new law packing a $1,000 fine for anyone operating a for-profit food business without a license comes only weeks after a Stoneville caterer was granted a state permit soon after it served a luncheon in which dozens became ill.
The Telegraph reports that you wouldn't think it's possible that three bites of a hamburger from a fast-food restaurant would be fatal or that ordering a glass of fresh-squeezed orange juice could result in a miscarriage -- but it has happened.
The Cariboo Press reports that according to Health Canada, seniors are more vulnerable to foodborne illness.
Brendan Wedley of the Peterborough Examiner (ON) reports that church suppers, service group dinners, strawberry socials and other community fundraising events would have been subject to stringent new regulations and inspections by public health inspectors.
Errol Kiong reports that a few thousand people dining in corporate comfort at the All Blacks-Ireland test at Eden Park last Saturday could have been struck down with gastroenteritis.
South Korea's government today ordered dozens of schools to suspend their lunch programmes after more than 1,700 students taken ill with food poisoning.
Suzanne Havala Hobbs of the News Observer reports that in the month of July alone - National Hot Dog Month - Americans can be counted on to eat more than 2 billion franks, according to the National Hot Dog and Sausage Council.
