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Newbury DeLuca in Hot Water; ABCC Inspector Charged with Taking Bribe

• The city’s Division of Health inspectors shuttered Newbury Street’s DeLuca’s Market yesterday, charging that it was selling potentially unsafe products left over from its burned out Beacon Hill location. [Herald]

• An inspector for the state Alcoholic Beverages Control Commission was charged yesterday with accepting a bribe to help a convicted felon get a liquor license. [Globe]

• Massachusetts’ bottle law could soon include deposits on water bottles. [Globe]

• Two months after the Gulf oil spill, it’s still difficult to estimate how much it will impact the area’s seafood. [NYT]

• The United Kingdom may abolish its Food Standards Agency. [Serious Eats]

• Lisa “Hungry Girl” Lillien is one of the top names in diet marketing, partially because of her relationships with brands like General Mills and Quaker. [NYT]

• White House chef Sam Kass is now also the administration’s Senior Policy Advisor for Healthy Food Initiatives. [Obama Foodorama]

• Groups like Omnivore and Le Fooding hope to restore France’s utter dominance in the food world. [WSJ]

• Domino’s is now offering a whole wheat lower-fat pizza for use in schools. [Dallas Observer]

• Though you won’t find them in bakeries, savory loaves called cake salé are tremendously popular among French home cooks. [NYT]

Newbury DeLuca in Hot Water; ABCC Inspector Charged with Taking Bribe