Don't put that in our mouth!

E coli in beef from Town and Country Foods.

Salmonella in lettuce from Dole.

Salmonella Sushi outbreak is up to 141 sick. Moon Marine is recalling their yellowfin tuna in response.

The Oregon raw milk associated E. coli outbreak is up to 18 ill, with 4 children hospitalized. Doesn't sound like much, but turns out to be all from a 4 cow dairy... which makes the proportion of exposed to ill to hospitalized pretty harsh.

And 4 people have been charged with trimming, repackaging, and selling moldy cheese.

Book Review Collection

Boneshaker by Cherie Priest was delightful, in a grim and zombie-infested sort of manner. This book actually precedes the last book I reviewed from her, Dreadnought, so you should read Boneshaker first, but you should read both. :)

I've also finished off Nightbirds on Nantucket by Joan Aiken. I rather enjoyed it, though not as much as I enjoyed her book Wolves of Willoughby Chase. Both are children's books, but Ms. Aiken has a lovely way of not talking down to her young readers. She also manages to do a good bit of suspense without resorting to the gore of most suspense books written for adults. And she manages to avoid being utterly predictable in her suspense, which rather helps with the whole suspense thing. Anyway, Nightbirds was a bit sillier than Wolves, but I liked them both.

And I'm sure you'll all be terribly surprised to hear that Patricia Briggs' latest Mercy book, River Marked, was a great addition to the series. FINALLY got some more detail on Mercy's background, which was fun, and this whole book was more of a Native American myth base than most of the series, which has dealt primarily with "imported" supernatural from Europe.