Food safety

Food safety comprises all of the kitchen cleanliness and food handling and storage rules and regulations that keep people from getting sick when they eat. With recent lawsuits stemming from E. coli infected meat and filthy restaurant kitchens like those revealed on Gordon Ramsey's Kitchen Nightmares, food safety is more of a concern than ever.

Basically, food safety rules and practices are there to prevent food poisoning. This is a concern in private home kitchens, in restaurant and institution kitchens, and in foreign countries where sanitation and food handling may not be up to Western levels.

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Latest blogosphere posts tagged “Food safety”

• Food sustainability: Modified opinions

  
  Comment is free | guardian.co.uk — Authority: 164
  Historians of the future may mark the early 21st century as the point where the science of agriculture finally broke into public understanding. Ten years of ill-tempered debate over genetically modified organisms (GMOs) has had many malign effects, not least adding to public scepticism about science and scientists. ...
  16 hours ago

• Communicators bungle the crisis: Tiger Woods, Maple Leaf, its not about the talk, its the actions

  
  BarfBlog — Authority: 434
  The Wall Street Journal and every armchair analyst out there is saying that Tiger Woods is blowing the communications thing; he’s losing credibility, and fast. Tiger Woodss handling of the scandal is a textbook case in poor crisis management, say crisis managers. Days of near-silence dealt a blow to the golfers ...
  19 hours ago

• Linda: A Victim of Foodborne Illness

  
  BlogHer - Health & Wellness — Authority: 145
  We have been very busy these past few weeks at S.T.O.P. - traveling, fund raising, educating and advocating- all in order to help protect our nation’s food supply.  In spite of all this activity, I never forget why I do this:  to prevent people getting sick from devastating foodborne illnesses that damage lives ...
  21 hours ago

• Linda: A Victim of Foodborne Illness

  
  MomsRising Blog — Authority: 134
  We have been very busy these past few weeks at S.T.O.P. - traveling, fund raising, educating and advocating- all in order to help protect our nation’s food supply.  In spite of all this activity, I never forget why I do this:  to prevent people getting sick from devastating foodborne illnesses that damage lives ...
  21 hours ago

• Boy, two, snatched by social workers after mother refused doctor’s advice to feed him junk food

  
  Aftermath News — Authority: 446
  Daily Mail | Dec 3, 2009 By Chris Brooke Heartbroken: Lisa Hessey was told she would have her parental rights taken away in court if she opposed a decision to place Zak in care Like many toddlers, Zak Hessey was a fussy eater who refused his mother’s healthy home cooking. Concerned about his falling ...
  22 hours ago

• New Documentary “Tapped” Makes Bottled Water Look All Wet

  
  Green Options — Authority: 149
  While watching the new documentary “Tapped ” with some of my other Greenies, we glanced at each other when one of the water rights experts used a notable quote courtesy of Mark Twain, “Whiskey is for sipping and water is for fighting.” So true, and the fighting will only get worse at least if you believe the ...
  22 hours ago

• Danger: This email contains barf, poop and foodborne pathogens, fund bites.ksu.edu

  
  BarfBlog — Authority: 434
  What we have discovered at bites.ksu.edu is that it’s best to be obvious and when possible, humorous. Food safety information can be boring, leading to complacency. We make important food safety information accessible and interesting to everyone, because everyone eats. bites.ksu.edu daily news e-mails are read ...
  22 hours ago

• More about steak temperatures and food-borne illnesses

  
  So You Want To Be A Waiter — Authority: 135
  At the blog, “You’re My Shadow Today”, the subject of steak temperatures came up. http://servernotslave.wordpress.com/2009/11/17/beaten-and-bloody-or-burnt-to-a-crisp/ This was something that the blog “In The Weeds” recently tackled ...
  1 day ago

• GMO Bans, Laws, and Labels from Around the World

  
  TreeHugger — Authority: 686
  Photo credit: David Gould / Getty Images Prince Charles has called them the "biggest environmental disaster of all time," while agriculture industrialists like Monsanto swear theyre safe for human consumption and a boon for the environment. Genetically modified foods are nothing if not controversial, and that ...
  1 day ago

• Food agencies at work (or not): USDA

  
  Food Politics — Authority: 562
  USDA is the agency supposedly responsible for the safety of meat and poultry.  Unlike FDA, which is responsible for the safety of just about all other foods, USDA gets to impose HACCP (science-based food safety regulations) on meat and poultry.  It just doesn’t bother to enforce its own rules.  Hence recent ...
  1 day ago

• Dirty birds

  
  The Checkup — Authority: 524
  Theres good news and bad news about chicken this week. Consumer Reports on Monday released the results of its latest survey of fresh, whole broiler chickens and the potentially deadly contaminants they harbor.
  1 day ago

• Male and female shopping styles are in our genes

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 726
  Washington, Dec 3 (ANI): Ever wondered why women spend so much time in shopping, while men just get in and quickly get out with the relevant stuff? Well, the answer lies in their genes, say researchers.According to lead researcher Daniel Kruger, from University of Michigan, different shopping styles date back to the ...
  1 day ago

• 3 stricken with E. coli O157 in Washington State from raw milk; is that food safety hysteria?

  
  BarfBlog — Authority: 434
  Chapman wasn’t feeling particularly hysterical as he kept crapping himself while he was in Manhattan (Kansas) a couple of weeks ago and was then confirmed to be suffering from campylobacter. I didn’t feel hysterical with my own case of the green apple splatters over the weekend while sitting in the backseat ...
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• Raw Milk: Just Because Its Legal, Doesnt Mean Its Safe!

  
  eFoodAlert.com — Authority: 134
  Raw Milk In Washington State Sickens Three People Retail sale of raw milk is legal in Washington State. But that doesnt mean drinking it is risk-free. Raw milk produced by the Dungeness Valley Creamery has been linked to three cases of E. coli infection, according to a report issued today by the ...
  1 day ago

• How Safe is Your Commercial Kitchen?

  
  Website Marketing Club — Authority: 165
  If you own your own restaurant you already know how lucrative the food business is. However, it is very easy to ruin you restaurant business if you do not pay attention to the sanitation of your food. There are many things to keep in mind when you are looking at making sure that your kitchen meets the standards that ...
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• Up to 160 sick after holiday party at Melbournes Crown Casino

  
  BarfBlog — Authority: 434
  That’s me and Melbourne Milton, having a chat along Southbank one morning last year when we visited Australia. The Crown Casino is tucked in behind us. We spent a couple of nights in the hotel – it was great. But it wasn’t so great for 160 employees of superannuation fund Unisuper, who decided on a Christmas ...
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• Feinstein Introduces "Processed Food Safety Act of 2009"

  
  eFoodAlert.com — Authority: 134
  Senators Effort Well-Meaning, But Naive On November 30, 2009, Senator Dianne Feinstein of California introduced the latest in a long series of well-intentioned attempts to reform US food safety laws. The Processed Food Safety Act of 2009 would, according to Mrs. Feinstein , ". . . require ...
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• Recalled Beef

  
  cookiesinheaven — Authority: 418
  wasnt recalled for school lunch programs ? WTF? Even as public health officials told residents to throw out recalled products from the Fresno plant, the federal government paid Beef Packers hundreds of thousands of dollars for almost 450,000 pounds of ground beef made from June 5 to June 23, the dates ...
  2 days ago

• The FDA Seems to be doing its Job Today…

  
  All Things Whistleblower: A GAP Blog — Authority: 123
  The Food and Drug Administration(FDA) cited a Tyson company seafood plant for serious food safetyviolations yesterday, Representatives for the plant, which produces seafoodsoup and sauces, are claiming that the problem was primarily related to paperwork,and did not actually involve threats to food safety. ...
  2 days ago

• US school lunch program needs more food safety accountability

  
  BarfBlog — Authority: 434
  Today’s USA Today has a feature story today about meat served in the U.S. school lunch program and asks why certain batches of meat were excluded from a Salmonella-related recall and outbreak last year. What stands out is that the U.S. Department of Agriculture initially refused to match suppliers with positive ...
  2 days ago

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