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”

• Gratuitous food porn shot of the day (Xmas eve edition) -- French rib rack lamb

  
  BarfBlog — Authority: 482
  The things you can find on sale at Dillon’s supermarket (part of the Kroger chain) in Manhattan (Kansas). For Christmas Eve dinner, which has no special significance other than we made it home from Minnesota before the storm hit, only to get walloped in Manhattan, I decided to cook the lamb – with a rosemary, ...
  5 hours ago

• Food poisoning during the Dominican honeymoon means Pepto-Bismol and baby wipes

  
  BarfBlog — Authority: 482
  Kansas State University student, and news hunter and gatherer, Gonzalo Erdozain (right, sorta as shown), finally got away on his honeymoon to the Dominican Republic after classes ended last week. Gonzalo returned yesterday and shares his tale below. I probably contracted a slight case of food poisoning while ...
  10 hours ago

• Labels on frozen foods can be confusing - the Stouffers Family Size Lasagna experience

  
  BarfBlog — Authority: 482
  We’ve been visiting with some of Amy’s family in Minnesota the past few days. Dinner for the gang last Sunday in Andover, north of Minneapolis, featured a couple of frozen Stouffer’s lasagnas. Two lasagnas were required to feed the crew, and were cooked in the oven at the same time. Although the recommended ...
  12 hours ago

• Airport food worse than you think

  
  WalletPop Blog — Authority: 695
  Filed under: Food , Travel There are about a million (mostly bad) jokes about airline food, but if youre traveling over the next several days you might want to pack a lunch or take your chances on the plane. It turns out the food served in airport eateries and grab-and-go stands are worse than what is served on ...
  14 hours ago

• FDAs Useless Consumer Complaint System

  
  eFoodAlert.com — Authority: 132
  Complaint About Swollen Orange Juice Cartons Brushed Aside "If you still wish to have one of your containers analyzed you may contact a private laboratory." – Sheila van Twuyver, FDA Consumer Complaint Coordinator Orange juice is a typical part of our breakfast. My husband and I like ...
  16 hours ago

• LGA Reading Material

  
  inFLIGHTout - San Francisco Bay Area — Authority: 125
  Reading material while at New Yorks La Guardia Airport (LGA). Photo and caption credit: Joe.My.God (one of my favorite non-travel blogs)
  23 hours ago

• The Return of Monsanto’s Roundup Ready Alfalfa: Share Your Concerns with USDA

  
  Civil Eats — Authority: 551
  Beginning in 2006, the Center for Food Safety (CFS) took legal action against the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s (USDA) illegal approval of Monsanto’s genetically engineered (GE) Roundup Ready alfalfa. The federal courts agreed and banned GE alfalfa until the USDA fully analyzed the impacts of the plant on ...
  1 day ago

• Food Safety in 2009: Obama, Vilsack, FDA, Senate on Naughty X-Mas List

  
  Civil Eats — Authority: 551
  The food safety landscape after the first year of the Obama administration remains very similar to the last year of the Bush administration…. During a recent interview with Oprah Winfrey, President Obama gave himself a letter grade of B+ for his first year in office. But all the same, an ad hoc consortium of food ...
  1 day ago

• CSPI: 33% Fewer Foodborne Outbreaks Investigated By The CDC

  
  BASIL & SPICE--NUTRITION! — Authority: 125
  WASHINGTON—In a troubling trend, state health departments completed fewer foodborne illness investigations in 2007 than in the previous decade, according to the Center for Science in the Public Interest.        “The decline in fully-investigated outbreaks could reflect a serious gap in state public health ...
  1 day ago

• The need for food packaging: The French fight back

  
  BarfBlog — Authority: 482
  When I was on The Dr. Oz show for 30 seconds a couple of months ago, I noted that leading supermarkets are taking steps to minimize contact between the thousands of sniffling, sneezing and wheezing customers who daily rifle through bread bins, climb on piles of plantains, and snort olives. Albert Amgar alerted me ...
  2 days ago

• Oysters -steamed - may have caused illness at Raleigh oyster bar

  
  BarfBlog — Authority: 482
  NBC17 is reporting this afternoon that several customers have notified the 42nd Street Oyster Bar that they became ill after eating oysters at the longtime Raleigh restaurant. Brad Hurley, a partner with 42nd Street Oyster Bar, told NBC17 that the restaurant received calls on Monday and Tuesday from customers who ...
  2 days ago

• Tap vs. Bottled Water – Toxic Update

  
  Fooducate — Authority: 470
  If you’ve been following this blog, you know we preach to ditch soft drinks in favor of plain old water. But not the expensive bottled water. From the faucet – tap water. Water is healthy because it has no extra calories, no artificial colorings, and no preservatives or additives. And it takes a weight off of your ...
  2 days ago

• Going Nuts: Hazelnut Recall at Whole Foods

  
  Circle of Food Blog — Authority: 136
  Hazelnut RecallIn a nutshell: The nut doesn’t fall from the tree (bad pun). Earlier today I posted about a big recall from an Oregon hazelnut farmer because of possible salmonella food... >>> Enjoy this appetizer. Hungry for the full course? Visit Circle of Food.
  3 days ago

• Food labeling: yet another update

  
  Food Politics — Authority: 565
  The FTC Forum last week got everyone going about food labels.  Here are the latest items to hit my inbox: Traffic light front-of-package labels may do some good after all: As I explained in a previous post , British investigators did a study showing that the green-yellow-red traffic light dots on food packages do ...
  3 days ago

• Dont panic -- hazelnuts are not the new peanuts

  
  Booster Shots — Authority: 677
  Many bakers have a limited need for hazelnuts. Pecans, walnuts, almonds -- these fit standard recipe requirements quite nicely. But sometimes, during the holidays especially, only a hazelnut will do. So some concern is understandable now that the salmonella-prompted hazelnut recalls seem to be piling up. Whole Foods ...
  3 days ago

• Why Fruit Can Harm Your Health These Holidays

  
  Weight Loss and Training — Authority: 119
  Why Fruit Can Harm Your Health These Holidays In several articles on this site I state that a key component to any healthy eating plan is to include lots of fruit. But the question is, can fruit really be bad for us considering all the chemicals and pesticides that are sprayed on most fruit we eat? My intention ...
  3 days ago

• Health insurance EasyToInsureME

  
  Health Care Media Center — Authority: 129
  Health insurance is a kind of agreement between you and your insurance company that you need in case you get sick and need medical help. Unfortunately, usually people get interested in their health insurance only when something bad happens – only to find out that they have a 3,000 deductible or some important things ...
  3 days ago

• Food Recall: Hazelnuts in Oregon-Calif.

  
  Circle of Food Blog — Authority: 136
  In a nutshell: Almost 30,000 pounds of hazelnuts recalled in Oregon & Calif.press release from the Willamette Filbert Growers distributed by the FDAFOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE – December 17,... >>> Enjoy this appetizer. Hungry for the full course? Visit Circle of Food.
  3 days ago

• Rats filmed in Honolulus Chinatown market

  
  BarfBlog — Authority: 482
  Here’s the video of rats in a Chinatown market that sparked the story in the Honolulu Advertiser that Chapman just blogged about. The video sparked a Department of Health inspection of Pacings, which was cited for a violation. The Geller rat video has been seen by tens of thousands of people, and has spurred ...
  3 days ago

• Inspection reflection; is more always better?

  
  BarfBlog — Authority: 482
  A rat issue in Honolulus Chinatown market has led to politicians to blame the situation on a shortage of state food safety inspectors and environmental health officers. Inspectors in the region have dwindled from 23 in 1988 to nine today, causing State Sen. David Ige, chairman of the Health Committee, to state ...
  3 days ago

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