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Food Safety Culture

  • Posted: May 11th, 2012 - 10:55am

    Residents of Toronto are being reminded to thoroughly wash and cook fiddleheads before they are consumed to avoid illness. Fiddleheads are curled, edible shoots of the ostrich fern and are commonly eaten at this time of year as a seasonal vegetable.

    Date Published: 
    08.may.12
    Source Title: 
    Toronto
  • Posted: May 8th, 2012 - 11:17am

    Early in her tenure as the USDA’s Undersecretary for Food Safety, Dr. Elisabeth Hagen said she wanted to prevent foodborne illnesses, not just react to them. And she continues to repeat those words. It is her mantra, so to speak. But she is not just talking like so many in DC make a living doing. She is taking actions that will help prevent unnecessary illnesses.

    Date Published: 
    07.may.12
    Source Title: 
    Meatingplace
  • Posted: May 7th, 2012 - 5:48pm

    Abstract

    Date Published: 
    04.may.12
    Source Title: 
    Food Control, Volume 27, Issue 2, October 2012, Pages 289–293
  • Posted: May 1st, 2012 - 12:05pm

    Food safety bosses are planning a major hygiene blitz on poultry farms in a bid to cut levels of a nasty food-poisoning bug found in chickens. The Food Safety Authority of Ireland (FSAI) hopes to reduce cases of the campylobacter bacteria by visiting chicken farms around the country and introducing new health initiatives.

    Date Published: 
    28.apr.12
    Source Title: 
    Independent.ie
  • Posted: April 26th, 2012 - 11:37pm

    Dhaka -- The government has launched an awareness campaign for the first time in Bangladesh to improve household food safety and hygiene practices. The campaign on 'washing and cleaning during food preparation' targets rural women who are primarily responsible for preparing family meals and feeding infants.

    Date Published: 
    25.apr.12
    Source Title: 
    bdnews24
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    Posted: April 24th, 2012 - 6:37pm

    In 1996, California strawberry growers were wrongly fingered as the source of a cyclospora outbreak that sickened over 1,000 people across North America; the culprit was Guatemalan raspberries.

    Date Published: 
    24.apr.12
    Source Title: 
    barfblog
  • Posted: April 24th, 2012 - 6:35pm

    The union representing federal food inspectors says it’s hearing two very different explanations of what the Canadian Food Inspection Agency is cutting: one version from the minister and a very different version from senior CFIA managers.

    Date Published: 
    24.apr.12
    Source Title: 
    Globe and Mail
  • Posted: April 24th, 2012 - 6:33pm

    I like rock and roll. I like ribs. Rock 'n Ribs in Campbell MO seems like a pretty great place to get your fingers sticky and listen to cover bands play songs from Sticky Fingers. Spring signifies the start of festival season when tourism dollars pump into towns; the local kids will drink underage; and, hopefully no one gets sick from foodborne illness.

    Date Published: 
    23.apr.12
    Source Title: 
    barfblog
  • Posted: April 24th, 2012 - 6:20pm

    Dr. Oz tells Margaret not to eat raw meat straight out of the package but steak tartare is OK, Joy on the Foodtard Network is more concerned about creating grill marks on steaks than safety, especially cross-contamination, and Heston is a hero to most but norovirus-boy still don’t mean much to me.

     

    Date Published: 
    22.apr.12
    Source Title: 
    barfblog
  • Posted: April 24th, 2012 - 6:13pm

    Abstract: Effective food safety and food defense risk communication helps to inform consumers without causing panic and alarm. The Risk Communication Team of the Natl. Center for Food Protection and Defense has developed a list of 11 best practices recommended for effective risk communication.

    Date Published: 
    19.apr.12
    Source Title: 
    Journal of Food Science, Volume 77, Issue 4, pages R111–R117, April 2012