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FYI: More Melamine!

• This melamine-in-Chinese-milk scare just goes on and on. South Koreans now have to forgo Ritz crackers after investigators found high levels of melamine in them. [IHT]

• California becomes the first state to require that all chain restaurants list calorie counts. [AP]

• A San Francisco restaurant group suffers a setback in its case against the city's proposed health care plan, which would require small businesses to contribute to a city-sponsored health plan. [Sacramento Business Journal]

• A handful of restaurants have taken to ordering a whole cow (or pig) directly from the farm and butchering it in-house. [NYT]

• Thieves in Haiti steal three storehouses' worth of donated food for hurricane victims and put it up for sale. [Reuters]

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