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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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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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…
Continue Reading Kitchen Confusion: Food Workers Score Poorly on Safe Handling Test
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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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…
Continue Reading 'I'm Sick … And I'll Be Serving You Tonight'
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…
Continue Reading California Food Handlers Must Get Safety Training
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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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…
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…
