Or, at least your shouldn’t.
Hardly a week goes by that there is not yet another announcement of a hepatitis A positive employee putting co-workers, customers and the restaurant brand at risk. There have been
Continue Reading Publisher’s Platform: Offer Hepatitis A Vaccines – an offer you can’t refuse
Too bad the Taco Bell worker was not already vaccinated.
The Snohomish County Health Department has identified a case of hepatitis A that occurred in a food worker who worked at two Taco Bell locations:
Continue Reading Publisher’s Platform: If you visited a Taco Bell in Everett or Lake Stevens on May 22 or 23 you have less than 2 weeks to get a Hepatitis A vaccine
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I must admit, in 30 years of doing food safety, I seldom recall a health department withholding from the public the source of an outbreak – even Norovirus.
I am reminded by
Continue Reading Publisher’s Platform: Health officials should report what restaurant is linked to outbreak
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The Abbott infant formula recall could have been prevented. The FDA had reports of safety failures months before the contaminated formula sickened babies and caused two deaths.
I sent these T-shirts to
Continue Reading Publisher’s Platform: For babies’ sake, make Cronobacter sakazakii reportable
The U.S. Department of Agriculture’s (USDA) Food Safety and Inspection Service (FSIS) has released a proposed determination to declare Salmonella an adulterant in breaded stuffed raw chicken products when they exceed a very low level
Continue Reading Publisher’s Platform: It’s time to get Salmonella out of chicken products
Well, rumor has it that the documentary version of the story of the 1993 Jack in the Box E. coli outbreak will be out in June 2023. When all thought it would go to the
Continue Reading Publisher’s Platform: ‘Poisoned’ scheduled on Netflix in June and the mystery missing updates
A few weeks ago I offered the first 100 people who emailed me at [email protected], and gave me their mailing address, that I would send them a free t-shirt. To date I have had over
Continue Reading Publisher’s Platform: Get the F out of the FDA
With another flour-related foodborne illness outbreak brewing – this time Salmonella – a bit(e) of history might be on the menu. Here is the latest one:
As of March 30, 2023, 12 people infected with
Continue Reading Publisher’s Platform: A history of flour outbreaks in recent years
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I must admit, I seldom borrow anything from the former President or the First Lady, but this seemed to fit all too well.
Late in 2022 the public learned that infants may
Continue Reading Publisher’s Platform: Be Best or Be Better
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A few weeks ago I posted, “Putting the F – Food – back into the FDA.” I was wrong.
It is time to “GET THE F OUT OF THE FDA.” The F
Continue Reading Publisher’s Platform: I have changed my mind – it is time to ‘GET THE F OUT OF THE FDA’