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Public Health shuts down brokered food stand in Seattle

By News Desk on October 29, 2019

Fooda, a brokered food stand at 605 5th Avenue in Seattle was shut down on Oct 25 by King County Public Health.   It was closed down for the following food safety violations:

following food safety …
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Public Health in — King County links bacterial toxin illnesses back to Seattle noodle shop

By News Desk on January 4, 2019

Public Health —Seattle & King County is investigating an outbreak of gastroenteritis with abdominal cramping and diarrhea associated with Xi’an Noodles in Seattle. Xi’an Noodles is  at 5259 University Way NE in Seattle.

The investigation…
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Health district launches portal for restaurant inspection reports

By News Desk on November 29, 2017

The portal is a little cranky, and there are no bells and whistles, but restaurant inspection reports are now available online for Washington State’s third-largest county.

The independent Snohomish Health District has made about 5,000 …
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E. coli strain associated with Seattle restaurant goes traveling

By Dan Flynn on September 14, 2016

The number of people ill with the same strain of E. coli associated with the now-closed Matador restaurant in Seattle’s Ballard neighborhood has doubled, and the outbreak may be more far-flung than first reported. At…
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Schacht Interview: Using Restaurant Inspection Data to Improve Public Health

By James Andrews on May 14, 2015

Open government consultant and food safety advocate Sarah Schacht sat down with Food Safety News at the 2015 Food Safety Summit in Baltimore, MD, last month to talk about how data from restaurant inspections can…
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Seattle’s King County Venturing into Uncharted Territory with New Restaurant Grading System

By James Andrews on February 17, 2015

When Sarah Schacht walked through the doors of an Ethiopian restaurant in Seattle in February 2013 to grab a meal with a friend, the only accessible information she had about the place was its Yelp…
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Doubling of King County Vibrio Cases Potent Reminder to Adequately Cook Shellfish

By News Desk on August 19, 2013

King County, WA, residents are being warned not to consume raw or undercooked shellfish after more than twice the usual number have been sickened this summer by Vibrio parahaemolyticus infection. There were 14 confirmed or…
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