United States Environmental Protection Agency officials told AHN Media Corp. on Friday that the proposed ban on detectable residue of the pesticide carbofuran on food crops it announced Thursday is only the beginning because the agency plans to ban use of carbofuran in the future.

Carbofuran is a broad spectrum insecticide sprayed directly onto soil and plants just after the plant emerges to control beetles, nematodes and rootworm

More than 4,000 people in Denmark may be infected with salmonella in what may become the worst outbreak there in 15 years, health officials said Wednesday.

Urgent checks are being conducted to find the source of a salmonella outbreak that officials say may be caused by a food product distributed only in Denmark but no single source has yet been named

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is planning to widen its search in the salmonella outbreak investigation by including other produce items on its list of suspects.

The decision to include other fresh produce commonly consumed with tomatoes comes as the FDA is under growing pressure to step up efforts to trace the source of the contamination. The salmonella outbreak has sickened at least 869 people, including 107 who have been hospitalized, in 36 states and Washington, D.C

At least six people, most of them children, have died from diarrhea in Nepal's western Jumla region over the past two weeks.

A diarrhea outbreak struck the remote village Gadhichaur, 235 miles (380 km) west of Kathmandu, affecting more than 100 people

The total illness toll in the Salmonella outbreak has reached more than 756 and the government says it is still clueless about the source of outbreak. The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) said in a statement that no deaths have been attributed to the illness.

The U.S. Centres for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) said people in 34 states and the District of Columbia have been infected with a rare strain of bacteria known as Salmonella Saintpaul