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Taylor’s Maid-Rite Not Without Safety Blemishes

By Dan Flynn on March 16, 2010

The Iowa restaurant that wants the state legislature to exempt it from important food safety rules says its way of making loose meat sandwiches has never made anyone sick.

cooking-ground-beef1-featured.jpgTaylor’s Maid-Rite in Marshalltown, however, is not without safety blemishes on its record.   Putting aside the red or critical violations it…

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Iowa Ready to Put Food Safety at Risk

By Dan Flynn on March 15, 2010

The Iowa Legislature is on the brink of extending a waiver of food safety regulations that have allowed a handful of Maid-Rite franchisees to cook and store loose hamburger meat in the same cooking vessel at the same time.

Food safety experts say the practice risks both undercooking the…

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Letter From The Editor: Loose Meat

By Dan Flynn on March 14, 2010

Tomorrow Food Safety News will report in detail on the highly likely possibility that the Iowa Legislature is going to make it legal to recklessly cook loose meat in the Hawkeye State.

The Iowa Senate has by voice vote already approved an amendment to the state appropriations bill that…

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