Polish Agriculture Minister Marek Sawicki said Monday the bird flu virus detected last week on a turkey farm near Plock is under control. The H5N1 virus was traced to two villages, Uniejewo and Mysliborzyce, near central Poland.

A leading meat company said it received a delivery of 5,500 birds under consignment. Eight percent were dead or in bad condition, while three were found to have the bird flu virus. But at least 661 pounds (300 kilograms) of infected meat, possibly contaminated with the virus, may already be in retail outlets

Health authorities in Hong Kong are not yet banning two brands of China-made canned pork that were recalled from Singapore stores until its laboratory tests prove that samples of the products are laced with a banned antibiotic.

Meanwhile, the Shanghai firm that produces the Maling and Gulong brands of canned pork denied it uses nitrofurans, a banned cancer-causing antibiotic, in manufacturing luncheon meat, stewed pig trotters and minced pork

The Saudi government has temporarily banned the importation of live chicken and chicken products from Canada to prevent the spread of bird flu.

The Agriculture ministry said the import freeze is in response to confirmed reports that there was a bird flu outbreak in the Regina province in Canada

Consumption of energy drinks has now been linked to blood pressure or heart disease risk, a U.S. study has found. The findings were revealed at the American Heart Association's Scientific Sessions 2007 taking place in Orlando, Florida this week.

Although the heart rate and blood pressure increases observed in this study were not dangerous for healthy volunteers, healthy adults who drank two cans of a popular energy drink a day had above normal blood pressure and heart rate

The high-fat, high-protein and low-carbohydrate Atkins diet of eggs, meat and cheese may put the followers at risk for heart disease in just one month, a new study suggests.

Researchers at the University of Maryland say the popular diet raises your "bad" cholesterol and damages the blood vessels thus increasing the risk of heart disease