News of the Weird

In November, to calm down a growing number of apparently-horrified Australians, the Food Authority of the state of New South Wales issued a statement assuring people that meat in their refrigerators that appears to glow in the dark is actually harmless. Said the authority's director, the light-emitting bacteria responsible for the glow 'is not known to cause food poisoning' and, actually, is naturally present in most meats and fish.