More than 40 percent of restaurants in Hong Kong serve undercooked burgers if asked, according to a survey.
The Center for Food Safety in Hong Kong (CFS) interviewed more than 1,000 restaurants that sold burgers
Continue Reading Survey reveals undercooked burgers often sold in Hong Kong
You can show consumers a food safety video, and give them food safety tools, but you can’t make them use food thermometers all of the time.
Study results just published by the USDA’s Food Safety
Continue Reading Researchers report impact of safety video on use of food thermometers
The Food Standards Agency (FSA) has issued advice to prevent food poisoning over the holidays while Public Health England (PHE) has warned about norovirus.
There are an estimated 1 million food poisoning cases a year
Continue Reading FSA and PHE issue advice to prevent foodborne illnesses during the holidays
Just as feathered birds head south for warmer weather, so, too, do human snowbirds, who pack up their RVs and travel trailers they call home once they get to their sunny destinations.
But food-safety gurus
Continue Reading There’s snow place like home, unless you’re an RV snowbird
Every hour of every day people around the world are living with and working to resolve food safety issues. Here is a sampling of current headlines for your consumption, brought to you today with the
Continue Reading Briefly: Hot stockings — Healthy as a horse — Drugs down
Behavior researchers long ago recognized there is often a big difference between what people say they will do, and what they actually do. The best way to find the truth is to adopt observational research
Continue Reading FSIS announces 3-year research plan based on observation
Editor’s note: Ben Chapman, a food safety researcher and holiday meal enthusiast, originally published this column in the North Carolina State University News.
To view the full Thanksgiving food safety
Continue Reading Get stuffed — just use a thermometer before you unstuff
As Americans prepare for the second week of pre-empted prime time programming tonight with the beginning of the Democratic National Convention today in Philadelphia, there’s one thing that liberals and conservatives agree about — food
Continue Reading Liberals, conservatives agree on threat of foodborne pathogens
While summer often conjures up mouth-watering thoughts of pig roasts, if you’re actually contemplating tackling this culinary feat, some homework is in order. And that includes some homework about food safety. You certainly don’t want
Continue Reading Before Roasting a Pig, the Pros Advise Food Safety Homework
