The website iwaspoisoned.com, credited with helping to identify several high-profile foodborne illness outbreaks in recent years, has released an app designed to help people decide where to go when dining away from home.
The app identifies restaurants with recent reports of food poisoning. Another feature allows users to easily
Continue Reading iwaspoisoned.com app gives the public and public health officials new tools
Day after day, I watch the list of foodborne illness casualties accumulate. As a food safety expert, I receive a ridiculous number of recall alerts and foodborne illness outbreak notices daily. And I watch in amazement as the food service industry continues to be in denial about our country’s
Continue Reading Will the foodservice industry ever knock down it’s brick wall of denial?
Simple tweaks to the schedules of food safety inspectors could result in the discovery of hundreds of thousands of violations now being overlooked across the United States every year, according to new research about how scheduling affects worker behavior.
The potential result: Americans could avoid 19 million foodborne illnesses, nearly
Continue Reading Harvard researchers say fixing food safety inspectors’ schedules could end many violations
Flowers or chocolate? Dining out or staying in? These are the two biggest Valentine’s Day dilemmas. While flowers and chocolates can help make for a great night, poor dining choices can ruin the afterglow of the celebration.
Stop Foodborne Illness wants you to be aware of how preventing foodborne illness
Continue Reading Sweet or sickly sweet, it’s your choice for Valentine’s Day
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 reports available, going back to June 2016. The special purpose district does health inspections in
Continue Reading Health district launches portal for restaurant inspection reports
A new 17-page investigative report by the city auditor “did not find sufficient evidence” to support the allegation of improper inspections of Austin restaurants or that health officers’ misuse of time has put the public at risk.
The report did document that the capitol city of Texas wasted money because
Continue Reading Auditor says restaurant inspector issues don’t put public at risk
Although Chicago’s health department has plans to add less than half the number of the restaurant inspectors the city’s Inspector General Joe Ferguson recommended, he says it should be enough to perform the minimum number of inspections required by state law.
In a follow-up report issued Wednesday, Ferguson said the
Continue Reading Chicago IG says 20 more public health inspectors in the works
With the number of victims nearing 250, public health officials in the Toledo area say they expect more illnesses to be reported in a norovirus outbreak linked to a suburban doughnut shop.
Health Commissioner Eric Zgodinski, of the Toledo-Lucas County Public Health Department, met briefly with media Thursday, saying Mama
Continue Reading Doughnut shop norovirus outbreak victim count nears 250
A doughnut shop in suburban Toledo, OH, remained closed Thursday as county health inspectors continued an investigation into a norovirus outbreak that has sickened more than 200 people.
Mama C’s Donuts & Coffee on Conant Street in the Toledo suburb of Maumee, OH, voluntarily closed on Tuesday after public health
Continue Reading Ohio doughnut shop linked to norovirus outbreak; 200-plus ill
Local and state officials are investigating a possible foodborne illness outbreak after several people who ate at Layla’s Falafel in Stamford, CT, this past Wednesday reported becoming sick.
Neither the Stamford Health Department nor the Connecticut Department of Health had posted information about the situation as of 11 p.m. EDT
Continue Reading Stamford officials ask public to help on outbreak investigation
