When you think about risky foods and foodborne illnesses, you more than likely think of ground beef or poultry. Think again. The Center for Science in the Public Interest (CSPI)reported that it found a number of food poisoning cases are caused by some unexpected foods, including leafy greens, tuna and eggs. In fact, all of the top ten foods are regulated by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA).

For the first time UK scientists have shown what the food poisoning bug Salmonella feeds on to survive as it causes infection: glucose.

Ciguatera poisoning, the food-borne disease that can come from eating large, carnivorous reef fish, causes vomiting, headaches, and a burning sensation upon contact with cold surfaces. An early morning walk on cool beach sand can become a painful stroll on fiery coals to a ciguatera victim.

Scientists in Indiana are reporting development of a new biosensor for use in a faster, more sensitive test for detecting the deadliest strain of Listeria food poisoning bacteria.

Scientists at Oxford University have found that the free-range environment is not a major source for the infection of chickens with a bug responsible for 340,000 cases of food poisoning in the UK every year.

A team of Chinese experts met with their Japanese counterparts over a food poisoning case involving Chinese-made frozen dumplings Sunday afternoon at the Japanese Cabinet Office.

Investigators in China have uncovered the reason six people died from food poisoning last week. The six died in Hubei after eating dumpling soup for lunch. It has now emerged that the reason for their deaths was that the cook tried to thicken the soup by adding rat poison which he thought was flour.

There has been renewed criticism of food standards in China after six people died when they ate the same soup earlier this week.

Food poisoning caused by the bacteria enterohemorrhagic Eschericia coli (EHEC) O157:H7A results in severe abdominal cramps and bloody diarrhea. In the very young and old it can also cause hemolytic uremic syndrome (HUS) -- a disease characterized by anemia and kidney failure.

A Queensland University of Technology researcher has developed a new technique that can help scientists and clinicians quickly and cheaply diagnose the bacteria which causes the most common bout of food poisoning in Australia.

Nearly 100 children have been hospitalized in Russia's southern Stavropol Krai with dysentery believed to be caused by food poisoning. Reporting from the region, RFE/RL Russian Service correspondent Lada Ledenyova said 203 children between 1 1/2 and 6 years old have fallen ill. Of them, 97 have been hospitalized.

The rise in year-round consumption of fresh leafy greens such as lettuce and baby spinach is increasing the difficulty of keeping produce free from contamination by food poisoning bacteria, according to US scientists speaking today (Monday 3 September 2007) at the Society for General Microbiology’s 161st Meeting at the University of Edinburgh, UK, which runs from 3-6 September 2007.