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Boston’s Chicken & Rice Guys shutdown to “sort out” E. coli outbreak

By News Desk on April 13, 2017

The Chicken & Rice Guys has closed its four restaurants and parked its food trucks after a week that ended with 14 of its “halal grub” customers being infected with E. coli O157:H7, and sending…
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A Timeline of Chipotle’s Five Outbreaks

By Lydia Zuraw on December 15, 2015

The multistate E. coli outbreak linked to Chipotle that began in October has garnered extensive national coverage, but it’s just one of five outbreaks the “fast casual” restaurant chain has had to deal with since…
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Boston to Experiment With Letter Grades for Restaurants

By Lydia Zuraw on November 13, 2015

Boston will soon start assigning letter grades to all restaurants based on their health inspections, The Boston Globe reports. The A, B or C grades will initially only be posted online and may later be…
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Health Code Violations in Boston Not Unusual, Not Acceptable

By Lydia Zuraw on May 28, 2015

Recent news that nearly half of Boston’s restaurants were cited for serious health code violations last year is not out of the norm but is still alarming. “At least two violations that can cause food-borne…
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Massachusetts Uproar Over School Bake Sales Ban

By Dan Flynn on May 12, 2012

Just a year and half ago, the Obama Administration promised Congress that the child nutrition bill would not mean the end of “approved and infrequent” fund-raising bake sales for school-related causes like booster clubs and…
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Raw Milk Killed 48 in Boston Outbreak – 100 Years Ago

By Dan Flynn on March 16, 2012

Editor’s Note:  In May 1911, as many as 1,400 people in the Boston area were infected with micro-organisms – most likely staphylococci or streptococci – spread by contaminated raw milk during an outbreak that

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