Over the past 20 years, there may have been a correlation between media coverage of food safety issues and safe food handling and consumption, according to a new study in
Making restaurants pay for vaccinating their own employees against hepatitis A before they become food service workers would be a far cheaper alternative than running huge vaccination clinics after a
And so why do you care that September is the 17th Annual Food Safety Education Month, with an aggressive information and training campaign targeted directly to food-service workers?
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Diners beware: some restaurant workers may not have a full grasp of what it takes to keep food safe from contamination.
That’s according to a recent study from the
For 35,000 resident Americans and two million tourists from the states, leisurely dining out in Costa Rica is part of the “Pure Life.”
Restaurants in Costa Rica are regulated
In a study of restaurant food handling and foodborne illness, about 12 percent of the servers and preparers interviewed told public health researchers they had worked while sick with vomiting
In a move industry insiders say could mark the beginning of a national trend, Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger signed new legislation requiring nearly all of the more than one million food
Sick foodhandlers. It’s a problem nationally at many restaurants, and is the source of many outbreaks of foodborne disease. Currently, in the Shigella outbreak linked to a Subway restaurant
A new on-line food training program has been developed by the Victoria, Australia Department of Health to improve everyone’s knowledge of safe food handling practices.
Victoria’s Chief Health
This week, the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) posted some food safety new years resolutions to its blog. “It’s that time of year again, when we all make