Supermarket operator Safeway Inc.on Thursday announced that it has received a notice from the U.S. Department of Agriculture warning it may have received raw ground beef products affected with a strain of Salmonella Newport.

The USDA has suggested the consumers to discard the ground beef products purchased between September 19 and November 5 from any of the stores owned by Safeway Inc

Deaths from asthma, a common chronic disease among children, could increase by nearly 20 per cent by 2016 unless urgent action is taken to reduce emissions from vehicles and factories, the United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) said Wednesday.

Citing data from the World Health Organization (WHO), UNICEF said the three biggest killers of children under five - respiratory infections, diarrhea diseases and malaria - are closely linked to environmental factors

The Agri-Food and Veterinary Authority (AVA) of Singapore on Tuesday ordered a confectionery to shut down after customers who ate a cake made by the factory suffered food poisoning.

The factory, Prima Food, also decided to voluntarily close its 39 Prima Deli bakeries islandwide for one week starting on Wednesday. One outlet sold a chocolate cake contaminated with salmonella bacteria to one of the victims of the food poisoning

A Tennessee company is recalling cheese it distributed through a suburban grocery store on suspicion that it is contaminated with a bacteria that attacks people with weak immune systems.

Le Gourmet Connection has ordered the removal from store shelves of Jack Cheese, Lot No. 539, sold in 10-ounce blocks and distributed between Aug. 28 and Nov. 19

The Center for Disease Control and Prevention is urging the public to take a walk or bike half an hour of day in an effort to fight America's growing obesity problem and at the same time, help in arresting global warning. Walking and biking, the CDC says can cut on calories and carbon dioxide at the same time because it would mean less car on the street.

Estimates show the if all Americans between 10 and 74 walk for half an hour each day instead of driving, it would cut U.S. carbon dioxide emissions by 64 million tons saving 6.5 billions of gasoline and shed over three billion pounds of calories