Russian police find smuggled caviar 'in morgue freezer' AFP | Thu, Dec 29, 2011 SAINT PETERSBURG - Police have discovered a huge stash of contraband caviar stored in a hospital morgue freezer alongside dead bodies in Russia's second city of Saint Petersburg, officials said Thursday. Kept in large canisters marked "Aviation Security. Inspected," the stash of both red and black caviar weighed 175 kilograms (385 pounds) - a haul that can cost hundreds of thousands of dollars (euros) on the open market. "The caviar was being stored in the morgue freezer, which relatives used to say their final goodbye to the departed," a police spokesman in Saint Petersburg said by telephone. The Komsomolskaya Pravda daily said the morgue appeared to have been partially leased to a local businessman who used it as a transport and packaging centre for the caviar. Police said they were going to question the hospital's chief sanitary inspector but had no yet filed formal charges.

(REUTERS) - People who eat lots of red meat may have a higher risk of some types of kidney cancer, according to a US study of thousands of adults. Researchers writing in the American Journal of Clinical Nutrition found that middle-aged adults who ate the most red meat were 19 per cent more likely to be diagnosed with kidney cancer than those who ate the least. A higher intake of chemicals found in grilled or barbecued meat was also linked to increased risk of the disease. 'Our findings support the dietary recommendations for cancer prevention currently put forth by the American Cancer Society - limit intake of red and processed meats and prepare meat by cooking methods such as baking and broiling,' said lead researcher Carrie Daniel, at the US National Cancer Institute.