Food Lion LLC is an American grocery store company headquartered in Salisbury, North Carolina that operates approximately 1,300 supermarkets in 11 Southeast and Mid-Atlantic states under the Food Lion, Harveys, Bloom, Bottom Dollar, and Reid's nameplates. With approximately 73,000 associates, Food Lion LLC is the largest subsidiary of Delhaize Group. Delhaize Group is a food retailer headquartered in Belgium which operates in 7 countries. Delhaize Group was founded in Belgium in 1867. The principal activity of Delhaize Group is the operation of food supermarkets in North America, Europe and Southeast Asia. Supermarket News ranked Delhaize America No. 10 in the 2007 "Top 75 North American Food Retailers" based on 2006 fiscal year estimated sales of $17.3 billion.

The pears pictured above were 'labeled' with a novel laser imprint system at the OSU Food Innovation Center. The laser system doesn't hurt the fruit and enhances food security: The labels can't be peeled off.

"All reptiles (turtles, lizards, snakes) and amphibians (frogs, salamanders), are commonly contaminated with Salmonella," says Joseph C. Paige, D.V.M., a Consumer Safety Officer in the Food and Drug Administration's Center for Veterinary Medicine.

Increasingly, pregnancy care centers are embracing an holistic approach when addressing pregnancy crisis situations by offering parenting programs, prenatal care classes, clothing and food banks, life skills classes and more.

Center Network's review on FriendsEAT.com.

Lyrica, the first drug approved by the US Food & Drug Administration to treat fibromyalgia, has been hitting the headlines over the past few weeks. We talked to Dr. Joseph Teitelbaum of The Annapolis Center for Effective CFS/Fibromyalgia Therapies about the drug.