No matter how much individuals think they know about COVID-19 and food safety, experts agree on one point. No one knows enough.
More than a dozen scientists, government officials and corporate representatives joined forces yesterday
Continue Reading When you know how much you don’t know you can begin to look at COVID-19
March 2020 was a month unlike any of us have experienced before. Beyond the transition to working remotely and the seemingly endless video meetings and webinars, we’ve collectively learned a lot about coronaviruses, environmental
Continue Reading Managing food safety in the time of COVID-19
Editor’s note: This column by Ben Chapman was originally posted on BarfBlog.com and is reposted here with permission.
I never met Dave Theno. I saw him speak a few
Continue Reading Food safety universe dimmer with the loss of two bright stars
The British have long referred to Norovirus as “the vomiting disease,” but now a “vomiting machine” has been invented at North Carolina State University and put to serious use in the study of how the
Continue Reading NC State-Led Team Creates ‘Vomiting Machine’ to Study Norovirus Transmission
(This article by Ellen Thomas, a Ph.D. candidate in Food Science at North Carolina State University, and Ben Chapman, Ph.D., an associate professor and food safety specialist at NCSU, was published in the October/November 2014
Continue Reading The Role of Cooperative Extension in Food Safety
The Institute of Food Technologists (IFT) hosted a Twitter chat on Monday night about packed lunch food safety with Ben Chapman, associate professor and Food Safety Extension Specialist at North Carolina State University. Below, you’ll
Continue Reading Twitter Chat on #SafeLunch
(This blog post by Dr. Ben Chapman was published June 2, 2014, on Barfblog and is republished here with his permission.) A couple of years ago, I heard a retailer food safety dude tell a
Continue Reading Losses Linked to Wolverine Packing Co. Go Deeper Than Recall
