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”

• Climate Issues and Agriculture; Food Security; and Food Safety

  
  FarmPolicy.com — Authority: 124
  Climate Issues and AgricultureDan Morgan, a former Washington Post reporter and editor, who is now an independent writer specializing in agriculture and energy, published an article yesterday titled, “Mining Carbon Down on the Farm.” Datelined from Wheatland, Wyoming, the article stated that, “This region of the ...
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• Time to bin the “Best before” date?

  
  Not Delia — Authority: 128
  Food waste is something of a hobby-horse of mine – I always feel a pang of guilt when I’m chucking away something I’ve bought, fully intended to do something with and then left languishing at the back of the fridge for just that bit too long. But I can console myself with the knowledge that [...]
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• Teens don’t care much about hygiene while cooking

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 708
  Washington, November 12 (ANI): Teenagers are more likely to cross-contaminate raw foods when preparing frozen foods, a study has found.Researchers from Kansas State University sought to determine actual food handling behaviour of both adults and adolescents and what could be done to enhance the safety of frozen ...
  18 hours ago

• Teens aren’t careful about hygiene while cooking

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 708
  Washington, Nov 12 (IANS) Teens are less likely to wash their hands while cooking and are more likely to cross-contaminate raw food than adults, says a new study.“While half of the adults we observed washed their hands after touching raw chicken, none of the adolescents did,” said Casey Jacob, study co-author and ...
  18 hours ago

• School Lunch Food Fight Ends In Arrest of 25 Chicago Students

  
  TakePart Social Action Network — Authority: 612
  cornelluniversitylibrarys Flickr photostream/Creative Commons We take school lunch very seriously here at TakePart, particularly efforts to increase access to healthy, local ingredients, but a Chicago middle-school may have gone a little overboard when they had 25 students arrested for a cafeteria food fight .  ...
  20 hours ago

• Minnesota dairyman troubled by strange SCC counts

  
  The Proud Political Junkie's Gazette — Authority: 135
  By: Guy EkolaDairy Quality Control Inspection (DQCI) runs a milk test lab in Minnesota where I’m from and they tested my milk routinely as I was with National Farmers Organization, (NFO).Does anybody know here, about SCC’s? I consider them a very over-hyped lab analysis of cow’s milk, something similar in ...
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• A dairy farmers side of the organic story

  
  The Proud Political Junkie's Gazette — Authority: 135
  By: Guy Ekola  I once wanted to live in Wisconsin and be a dairy farmer there. Now I see it is the only worse thing I could have done than remain in Minnesota and be a small family dairy farmer here.I see you have mentioned Organic Valley. I used to sell milk there, until they wiped [...]
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• BPA dans les emballages : la dysfonction érectile

  
  PakBec — Authority: 122
  D’après une étude publiée cette semaine dans la revue " Human Reproduction ", une exposition à de fortes doses de bisphénol A (BPA) cause des troubles sexuels chez les hommes. Le BPA est utilisé dans de nombreux produits de consommation courante, notamment les bouteilles en plastique ou les canettes ...
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• top 50 healthy living blogs-Circle of Food

  
  Circle of Food Blog — Authority: 130
  Circle of Food is proud to announce that are listed among the Top 50 Healthy Living Blogs on the Health Sensei list of healthy blogs.  It’s exciting to be recognized for our efforts and right... >>> Enjoy this appetizer. Hungry for the full course? Visit Circle of Food.
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• S2758: Another fake food safety bill magically appears

  
  The Proud Political Junkie's Gazette — Authority: 135
  by: Marti Oakley and the PPJ AllianceUpdate: On page 7, there is the whole list of “best practices”  On the surface this would seem to be about giving grant money, and they are focusing on “small and medium size farms and processors.  (Why don’t the train and educate the BIG PRODUCERS causing the food safety ...
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• The Only Good Oyster is a Safe Oyster

  
  BlogHer - Health & Wellness — Authority: 140
  It never ceases to amaze me how business interests have more sway with Congress than good, protective food safety measures.  Two weeks ago, the FDA finally did the right thing and told the shellfish industry that, starting in 2011, gulf coast oysters would have to be post-harvest processed to kill the deadly ...
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• The evil in Wisconsin Food Safety — and what it means to Wisconsin

  
  The Proud Political Junkie's Gazette — Authority: 135
  Email this By: Scott TrautmanCopyright © 2009  Trautman Family FarmsEvil is as strong a word as one can use. It is not a word I, or anyone else should use lightly. I have avoided it a long time in this situation — hoping against hope — that Steve Ingham, Cheryl Daniels, Tom Lietzke & Jackie Owens [...]
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• Campylobacter week: two great papers on the pathogen

  
  BarfBlog — Authority: 525
  A couple of cool papers on Campylobacter were published last week -- one discussing outbreaks  of the pathogen in Australia (and the most common sources) and another suggesting that generic E. coli is a lousy indicator of campy in water. In the first paper, Outbreaks of Campylobacteriosis in Australia, 2001 to ...
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• Direct video observation of adults and tweens cooking raw frozen chicken thingies

  
  BarfBlog — Authority: 525
  One of the first things I did after officially joining Kansas State University in 2006 was try and figure out some novel research. Chapman flew in from Guelph, we had a beer with Phebus at a local bar and sketched out a proposal on the back of a napkin, to observe people cooking chicken. Sarah Wilson, my composed ...
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• H1N1 Flu and Pork Production Connection Raised By Jonathan Safran Foer

  
  TakePart Social Action Network — Authority: 612
  kevinhutchinsons Flickr photostream/Creative Commons The vaccine for the H1N1 virus has received quite a bit of attention lately, however, important questions remain unattended about the origins of the vicious strain and the likely possibility that it spread from unsanitary conditions on factory pig farms.  ...
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• Prepare A Safe, Delicious Thanksgiving Dinner

  
  North Country Gazette — Authority: 591
  Preparing Thanksgiving dinner can be a wonderful experience, yet daunting for those planning it. The goal is to have a safe and delicious turkey dinner, and if planned one day at a time, it can be a fun and memorable experience.A good way to start is one week before the big day – on Thursday, [...]
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• Leading European Food Safety Authority Staff Member Moves into Industry

  
  Newsvine - Pamela Drew's Column - Articles and Seeds — Authority: 127
  Munich/ Parma - A leading staff member of the European Food Safety Authority (EFSA) has quit to work in industry. Suzy Renckens, scientific coordinator of the GMO panel, officially represented Syngenta in an expert hearing at EU level in 2008.
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• Q&A: Is it safe to bake with spoiled milk?

  
  Consumer Reports Health Blog — Authority: 589
  Does baking with spoiled milk, which my mother does routinely, pose any health risks? —Z.C., Grand Junction, Colo. Probably not—but that doesn’t mean it’s a good idea. Nearly all milk sold in grocery stores today is pasteurized, primarily to prevent tuberculosis and brucellosis. That greatly diminishes the ...
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• Food safety culture means employees dont contaminate food with brooms or forklift tires

  
  BarfBlog — Authority: 525
  If a company making ready-to-eat refrigerated deli-meats has a “ strong culture of food safety, ” would an employee shake a broom over a line of processed product? If more inspectors are the answer to safer food, why would the inspectors need publicly reported accounts of foodborne illness and death to try ...
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• Gulf Coast Oyster Harvest Valued at $60 Million (2008)-FL Sen Fights FDA

  
  BASIL & SPICE — Authority: 135
  WASHINGTON—The Center for Science in the Public Interest was joined today by victims, consumer advocacy, and public health organizations in urging Congress to support the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) efforts to protect consumers from contaminated oysters that each year cause scores of ...
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