Fine over rats at food warehouse
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A huge rat infestation at a food warehouse supplying schools and care homes was "outrageous" says a judge.
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A King County sheriff's deputy responding to a complaint about rats at a Kirkland-area home discovered what is believed to be the homeowner's body, being eaten by rats.
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A city health inspector who gave a passing grade to a fast-food restaurant a day before television cameras captured images of rats scampering across its floor has been removed from field duty, health officials said Tuesday.
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BELLEVUE, Wash. - A grocery store closed and cleaned its produce section and inspected all of its other merchandise as police arrested a 23-year-old homeless man accused of leaving human feces on the produce...
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Authorities in Malaysia's capital have ushered in the Year of the Rat by offering a bounty on rats to help fight the city's age-old rodent problem, a newspaper said on Saturday.
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A lucky few laboratory rats and mice won a reprieve on Tuesday following an extensive European review of drug research practice, which found one standard safety test to be redundant.
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Scientists go back to the drawing board in their battle against poison resistant rats.
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The company said it had worked with health officials to clean and re-stock the affected restaurants.
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A manufacturing plant in Ohio was using the banned substance that ended up in feed for farmed fish, shrimp and livestock.
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The government has new rules for preventing food poisoning in fresh-cut produce, but companies don't have to follow them.
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By Bob Cox, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, Texas  Dec. 19--Some neighborhoods in Tarrant County had no trash collection Monday after about 100 Allied Waste employees did not show up for work.
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TAMPA, Fla. - Animal control authorities are not amused by a fast food chain's marketing stunt encouraging customers to dress their cats in a special take out bag.  Tampa-based Checkers Drive-in Restaurants Inc.
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U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement said more than 160 employees were arrested at a Koch Foods Inc. chicken plant in Fairfield, Ohio, on Tuesday as part of a criminal operation against illegal immigrants employed at the plant.
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As China prepares for the Year of the Rat, Thailand's fast food sellers are enjoying a boom in sales of the rodent.
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MORROW, Ga. - The Piccadilly restaurant chain has recalled a brand of turnip greens sold at some of its 132 restaurants after a customer at a Georgia outlet bit into greens containing rat body parts...
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Culinary solution to Three Gorges Dam rodent disaster Residents downstream of China's controversial Three Gorges Dam in Hunan province have responded in traditional fashion to a plague of two billion rats forced into farmland by rising water levels - by offering them to restaurants in neighbouring Guangdong province, the home of "if it's edible, we'll eat it" Cantonese cuisine.â¦
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MEXICO CITY - Officials in northern Mexico are offering rewards to people who kill hordes of rats that dozens of cats could not conquer. Citizens who have the stomach for it can make $.40 for each rodent they kill in Guadalupe y Calvo, Mayor Jesus Velazquez told The Associated Press in a telephone interview Monday...