Dogs Still “Man’s Best Friend”
Dogs Still “Man’s Best Friend”
“Beware of the dog: you may catch MRSA”, warns The Times today, going on to say that letting a dog lick your face, picking up its faeces or allowing it to sleep on your bed could put you at risk of catching salmonella, campylobacter or MRSA. The newspaper adds that the risk of infection from dog to man is low, and that the researchers behind this study do not wish to create a scare, particularly considering the benefits that owning a dog can have on health.
On the Job: Health problems need not be revealed during a job interview (The Salt Lake Tribune)
Cancer. Just the word is scary for many people. No one wants to hear a doctor give such a diagnosis, but battling the disease is difficult enough without being unemployed at the same time.
Pet Food Maker Needs Emergency Permit For Canned Foods To Enter Interstate Commerce, FDA
Evanger’s Dog & Cat Food Co., Inc. has been told by the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) that it must have an emergency permit for its canned pet foods to transported and sold from state-to-state. According to the FDA, a recent inspection found that the company’s processes, equipment and recordkeeping throughout the production of its thermally low acid canned food (LACF) products deviated significantly from prescribed documentation.