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Media Influence on Food Safety Practices

By Mary Rothschild on September 26, 2011

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

By News Desk on September 17, 2011

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 September 2, 2011

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 August 29, 2011

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 May 31, 2011

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 February 4, 2011

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 September 29, 2010

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 March 26, 2010

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 January 2, 2010

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…

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USDA’s 2010 Food Safety Resolutions

By Helena Bottemiller on January 2, 2010

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…

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