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The failure that is Food Safety Education month

Linda Rivera (right, pic from Washington Post)  is the face of everything that is wrong with Food Safety Education month. As The Washington Post reports this morning: In Room 519 of Kindred Hospital,...

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Duck and Cover: It’s Food Safety Education Month

Watching the pronouncements and proclamations for Food Safety Education month makes me think about kids in the 1950s getting educated about nuclear bombs: Duck, Cover and Roll. In the film, below,...

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The face of E. coli: Vancouver petting zoo edition

Although the Vancouver Coastal Health authority had identified a cluster of E. coli infections as early as last Thursday, no public health warning was issued, said spokeswoman Anna Marie D’Angelo. All...

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bites barfblog and food safety: information procedures

People often ask me, “Doug, how do you choose the information that goes in bites.ksu.edu? Do you have a basis for any of your food safety rants on barfblog? Why are you such a jerk? People often ask...

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Two listeriosis cases investigated in Ontario

Ontario health officials are investigating two cases of listeriosis that appear to be linked to salami recalled from stores in Ontario and Quebec about three months ago. The salami is sold by Siena...

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Going public with disease information: sooner the better

When to go public about health warnings – like potential outbreaks of foodborne disease – remains contentious. And no one is willing to come clean about it and say – this is when we go public and why....

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The secrets of a salmonella outbreak; over 100 sick

There are now over 100 sick with salmonella in France linked to hamburgers, primarily school kids, so as in the U.S., questions are being raised about food safety standards and procedures for products...

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Food safety story time: researchers find stories can help improve food safety...

I never thought Chapman would finish — his degree, his fantasy football, and especially this paper. We’ve been talking about food safety stories since at least 2002. I knew from research done in the...

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Socializing for the holiday – food safety style

Michéle Samarya-Timm, a registered environmental health specialist with the Somerset County Department of Health in New Jersey (represent) writes: Thanksgiving Day, as its name implies, is a time to...

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It’s not OK to swim with diarrhea; safe swimming in Utah after...

It matters what’s done after people barf. Same if people have diarrhea – in a pool. During the summer of 2007, almost 6,000 people in Utah started barfing from Cryptosporidium, transmitted via the...

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