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 the Journal of Food Protection
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Better to Vaccinate Food Workers Ahead of Time
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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 food service worker becomes infected…
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Don't Let Foodborne Bacteria Bug Your Dinner
By Cookson Beecher on
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?
The numbers say it all.
According to…
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Kitchen Confusion: Food Workers Score Poorly on Safe Handling Test
By Gretchen Goetz on
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 University of Illinois at Chicago, which…
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Costa Rica Inspected Hundreds of Restaurants
By Dan Flynn on
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 by the Health Ministry, which on…
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'I'm Sick … And I'll Be Serving You Tonight'
By Mary Rothschild on
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 and diarrhea.
The busier the…
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California Food Handlers Must Get Safety Training
By Eric Burkett on
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 handlers in the state of…
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Prevent Outbreaks: Send Sick Foodhandlers Home
By Drew Falkenstein on
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 in Lombard, Illinois, sick foodhandlers are…
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Victoria’s New Program: ‘Do Food Safely’
By Dan Flynn on
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 Officer, Dr John Carnie teamed up with…
USDA’s 2010 Food Safety Resolutions
By Helena Bottemiller on
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 promises to ‘do better’ or ‘do…