As a person ages, one tends to think about how their life’s work will be evaluated by future generations. Most people would want to be remembered for some accomplishment and hope that in the future, mistakes they made along the way will be forgotten.
For some, however, whatever they may have accomplished in life will be overshadowed by some spectacular…
Cantaloupes are again the vehicle for Salmonella. Such instances should be closely investigated to determine the root cause. Typical contamination sources in growing cantaloupes would include irrigation, run off, human waste, animal intrusion and infected workers.
The problem of contamination and potential growth of bacteria on melons is a difficult one. Normally, with a product that can…
Join me here as I go deep inside a food safety reporter’s home and kitchen and uncover the lurking, ever present microbes. Wendy Ryan and Tampa Bay’s Channel 9 really made this entertaining and educational, tough to do, we can take a few tips from these media/communication masters.
The hazaelnut outbreak may spur FDA to move in its new powers.
Here we see the packinghouse that packed the hazelnuts refusing to cooperate with officials after nuts it shipped sickend several people with E coli O157:H7. (Note the very soiled hands in this picture this would not be an acceptable level of cleanliness for a
A Boston.com site discusses a recent effort to make raw milk more available.
Bad idea. Its not that raw milk sanitation cannot be improved but to make it perfectly safe is probably not possible without pasteurization.
See Why to Pasteurize
What we are seeing now in the latest peanut butter recall and the problem with hazelnuts is this continued change in illness patterns from animal derived foods, to plant derived foods. See Bill Marler’s blog on the topic.
The situation is fueled by increased consumption, scrutiny, better detection methods and more industry testing. Small…
I do not agree that one food safety agency is better. Such a behemoth will be bound by a morass of red tape. The agencies have evolved over the last 100 years, They have their own culture and hierarchy. The turbulence caused by any drastic change will hurt the public health mission of all the…
Schools are skipping out on thier responsibility to prepare food safety plans.
Under the Richard B. Russell School Lunch Act of 2004, all schools were to have HACCP plans in place years ago.
www.fns.usda.gov/cnd/governance/…Policy…/2005-01-10.pdf
Here below is a perfect example of why. Schools that do not have a monitoring system in place are in default…