Newspapers:

1. Food safety: Forget that 5-second rule

If your family has lived by, or at least survived, the 5-second rule, researchers at San Diego State University say you may be living on borrowed time.

Link:http://www.dallasnews.com/sharedcontent/dws/fea/home/stories/DN-germs_0314gd.ART.State.Bulldog.4a0df08.html

2. Fighting the flu with food

If you've been able to fend off the flu through the holidays, congratulations are certainly in order. Those who didn't manage to accomplish that feat (including this writer) will vouch for the virulence of this season's strains. But take heed: While the festivities have passed, the flu season hasn't. How do you continue to sustain health?

Link: http://www.starbulletin.com/features/20100113_Fighting_the_flu_with_food.html

3. Ridding Schools of Junk Food

According to Agriculture Sec. Tom Vilsack, "our children are eating too much sugar, salt, and fats and too few fruits, vegetables, and low-fat dairy products. This mix may help explain why one-half of the calories consumed by children ages 6-11 in this country are 'empty' calories."

Link: http://www.suntimes.com/news/sweet/2039640,CST-NWS-sweetside10.article

4. Food Marketing Institute spent $880,000 in 4Q lobbying government on budget, credit card fees

The Food Marketing Institute, whose members include Safeway Inc. and Kroger Co., spent $880,000 in the fourth quarter to lobby on the federal budget, credit card fees and other issues, according to a recent disclosure report.

Link: http://www.chicagotribune.com/business/sns-ap-us-food-marketing-institute-lobbying,0,3400417.story

5. Students help fight hunger among peers

Designed to help meet the nutritional needs of children over the weekends, it was established in 2005 in Louisville, Ky., when teachers noticed children in free or reduced-fee lunch programs were tired, hungry and sluggish when they returned to school on Monday because there wasn't enough food at home.

Link:http://www.detnews.com/article/20100313/SCHOOLS/3130327/1026/Students-help-fight-hunger-among-peers

Magazines:

1.Salmonella Outbreak Shines Light on Food Safety

The first case of Salmonella Saintpaul was reported on April 10, but it took nearly four months, two deaths, and $100 million worth of needlessly discarded tomatoes before the culprit was found.

Link:http://discovermagazine.com/2009/jan/019/?searchterm=food

2. Food

Numerous parasites can be transmitted by food including many protozoa andhelminths. In the United States, the most common foodborne parasites are protozoa such as Cryptosporidium spp., Giardia intestinalis, Cyclospora cayetanensis,Toxoplasma gondii, and Entamoeba histolytica; roundworms such as Trichinella spiralis and Anisakis spp.; and tapeworms such as Diphylobothrium spp. and Taeniaspp.

Link:http://www.cdc.gov/ncidod/dpd/food.htm

3. THE WORLD FOOD CRISIS

Nothing is older to man than his struggle for food. From the time the early hunters stalked the mammoths and the first sedentary "farmers" scratched the soil to coax scrawny grain to grow, man has battled hunger. History is replete with his failures. The Bible chronicles one famine after an other; food was in such short supply in ancient Athens that visiting ships had to share their stores with the city; Romans prayed at the threshold of Olympus for food.

Link: http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,911503,00.html

4. What Parents Can Do to Keep Kids From Snacking Their Way to Obesity

Parents get beaten up on by doctors and public-health officials for feeding kids junk food and not making sure they get exercise.

Link: http://www.usnews.com/health/blogs/on-parenting/2010/03/03/what-parents-can-do-to-keep-kids-from-snacking-their-way-to-obesity.html

5. Science and Space Scientists continue to find new ways to insert genes for specific traits into plant and animal DNA. A field of promise—and a subject of debate—genetic engineering is changing the food we eat and the world we live in. Link: http://science.nationalgeographic.com/science/article/food-how-altered.html