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Florida needs to get on with enforcement of COVID-19 rules

By Roy Costa, RS, MS (MBA) on July 5, 2020
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It is clear that many people and many businesses are sympathetic to protecting public health, and also understand the risks they face trying to conduct business as usual during the COVID-19 pandemic. However, there…
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COVID-19: Can the restaurant industry step up to the plate?

By Roy Costa, RS, MS (MBA) on May 24, 2020
Opinion

The foodservice industry is remarkable for many reasons, the hard work, the long hours, the fierce competition, and the sheer number of operations. Making a go of a restaurant has many challenges; around 60…
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Hidden public health benefits of the COVID-19 experience 

By Roy Costa, RS, MS (MBA) on April 28, 2020
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If anything should restore the confidence of the American people in our governmental agencies and institutions, it is the leadership of our medical and public health professionals in this time of crisis. We…
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Can we have a culture of prevention in a toxic sea of division?

By Roy Costa, RS, MS (MBA) on March 5, 2020
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The food industry and our public health agencies have long recognized that they share the same responsibility to protect consumers from unsafe food.  The modern food industry is, however, growing more diverse, dynamic, and…
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Egg farmers not defined by bad actors; industry is safe, clean

By Guest Opinion on May 30, 2018

Today’s opinion article (May 26, 2018) by Roy Costa RS, MS, entitled “Rose Acres Farms: Another Bad Actor, or a Deeper Problem” deserves a rebuttal from the nation’s egg farmers.

Costa served as an expert

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Rose Acre Farms: Another Bad Actor, Or a Deeper Problem?

By Roy Costa, RS, MS (MBA) on May 26, 2018

The disgusting truth about industrial egg production is “it stinks”.  Sanitation in such environments stretches the imagination when you think of a million birds trapped in cages in huge shed-type structures called  “laying houses” and…
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FSVP compliance with FSMA achievable with A, B, C approach

By Roy Costa, RS, MS (MBA) on November 25, 2017

Provisions of the Foreign Supplier Verification Program (FSVP), under the jurisdiction of the Food and Drug Administration, were enacted in 2015. They mandate that foreign suppliers provide the same level of food safety protection for…
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Retail-host restaurant trend is not without food safety concerns

By Dan Flynn on April 11, 2016

Forget the food trucks or military posts or even college and university campuses. If you want to know which is among the fastest growing segments for restaurant food, it is a category the National Restaurant…
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Cyclospora and Unanswered Questions About Produce Safety

By Roy Costa, RS, MS (MBA) on August 17, 2015

Anytime there is a massive outbreak involving produce, those of us tasked with produce safety should be asking the difficult questions about our prevention methods and why they failed. There are emerging trends apparent with…
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An Epidemiological Model for HACCP Verification

By Roy Costa, RS, MS (MBA) on August 3, 2015
(Roy Costa is a registered sanitarian and president of the consulting firm Environ Health Associates Inc. More of his articles can be found here.) Knowledge and Capability of Auditors HACCP systems have grown and

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