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”

• 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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• The Only Good Oyster is a Safe Oyster

  
  BlogHer - Health & Wellness — Authority: 139
  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 ...
  8 hours ago

• 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 [...]
  20 hours ago

• Campylobacter week: two great papers on the pathogen

  
  BarfBlog — Authority: 524
  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 ...
  21 hours ago

• H1N1 Flu and Pork Production Connection Raised By Jonathan Safran Foer

  
  TakePart Social Action Network — Authority: 622
  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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• 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: 524
  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 ...
  2 days ago

• PETA McCruelty Billboard in SoMa

  
  Eat. Drink. Better. — Authority: 469
  They say that a picture is worth a thousand words but, of course, I’m not going to dedicate 1000 words or even 500 to this picture. My green friend and I spotted this billboard in a not exactly obvious place in the Soma district of San Francisco but we figured that PETA didn’t have or want to spend the big ...
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• Inkjet Printer + Paper + Science = Cheap & Easy Pesticide Detection

  
  TreeHugger — Authority: 721
  Wabash River PH Test Back in the chemistry class days, we had pH strips that changed colour according to whether a liquid was an acid or base. Now scientists at Hamilton, Ontarios McMaster University have come up with a cheap and fast way of finding out if there are pesticides in your food and drinks, by using an ...
  2 days ago

• Embracing Cooking and My Camera

  
  TakePart Social Action Network — Authority: 622
  I moved into a new apartment last weekend and with all the positive energy that comes from being in a new space I made a resolution to eat less processed food and to cook more.  It is SO easy to eat out here in New York City (and anywhere really) and all too often I get lazy and eat food that is processed and that I ...
  2 days ago

• The Politics of Plastics: Food Fights Over Bisphenol A

  
  TreeHugger — Authority: 721
  La Tomatina Food Fight We noted earlier that Consumers Reports Confirms Bisphenol A Leaches From Tin Cans . This didnt sit well with our friends at Stats.org, who responded with Consumer Reports BPA study filled with factual errors. Consumers Reports shot back with Industry re... Read the full story on TreeHugger
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• Tell Obama to Remove “Big Agriculture” from the USDA

  
  JerseySmarts.com — Authority: 426
  Hey, I know that I hoot and holler a lot about our country getting a better, more sustainable food supply. For those of you that are bothered by this, I’m sorry but it’s one of the things that I feel strongly about these days. I really believe that our countrymen have been put in a bad way because of a lousy ...
  3 days ago

• 40 Million People In Japan Have Allergies

  
  Kurashi - News From Japan — Authority: 419
  Some 40 million people have allergies in Japan, according to the Japan Allergy Foundation. They dont have an English website, even though information about allergies in Japan should be made widely available - dont you think? The Japanese Society for Allergology has English studies, but most are pdf documents. Their ...
  3 days ago

• Farmer Veteran Coalition: Tanks to Tractors

  
  TakePart Social Action Network — Authority: 622
  markpeates Flickr photostream/Creative Commons The Farmer Veteran Coalition is an amazing organization that provides U.S. veterans returning from Iraq and Afghanistan with the resources, tools and mentorships to help them find employment in farming communities around the country. I was thrilled to hear about the ...
  3 days ago

• Staging the collapse of private dairy operations: A corporate coup’, Part 2

  
  The Proud Political Junkie's Gazette — Authority: 135
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  4 days ago

• Jelly Belly jelly bean recall, peanut allergy

  
  Circle of Food Blog — Authority: 130
  Image via WikipediaIn a nutshell: Some Jelly Belly jelly beans packed in 7.5-oz cyclinders have been incorrectly labeled which could be dangerous to people who are allergic to peanuts. The rest... >>> Enjoy this appetizer. Hungry for the full course? Visit Circle of Food.
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• FDA Cracks Down On Misleading “Smart Choices” Food Labels

  
  TakePart Social Action Network — Authority: 622
  mikelichts Flickr photostream/Creative Commons The FDA has announced plans to investigate the “Smart Choices” initiative, an industry-led nutrition labeling program, arguing that the labels may mislead the public by implying that sugary foods are healthy. I’m amazed that the “Smart Choices” label has ...
  5 days ago

• Selfs Weekly Diet Dispatch 116: Food & Diet: Self.com

  
  PHILCHAR — Authority: 161
  PLUS Good news for Americans trying to eat right and important food safety upda te! by Sarah Schmidt. Thumbnail image for diet -dispatch.jpg. What do Michelle O bama and Tyra Banks have in common Read the original: Selfs Weekly Diet Dispatch 116: Food & Diet: Self.com © 2009, Briellibiag . All Articles ...
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• Jon Stewart as Glenn Beck on Appendicitis

  
  TakePart Social Action Network — Authority: 622
  Glenn Beck is almost always super frustrating to watch.  And while I try not to post about too often because it seems like it would just be giving him more of a platform, I was so enraged by his rant on vegetarianism and Meatless Monday’s last week that I couldn’t help but respond with a post. Well, I’ve ...
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