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Heston still don’t know noro

Celebrity chef Heston Blumenthal’s latest attempt at PR salvation in this morning’s Daily Mail is another crass and superficial effort to blame others for the March 2009 norovirus outbreak that...

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Food service workers show up when sick; excuse me while I barf

A new report says more than 60 per cent of restaurant employees choose to show up for work instead of staying home when they’re sick because they have no insurance and no paid sick time. Kim Severson...

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Will machines that go Ping increase handwashing compliance?

Money is a good way to get an administrator’s attention. Monty Python figured this out in 1983’s, The Meaning of Life. In The Miracle of Birth bit, as a laboring woman is wheeled into the delivery room...

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FDA seizes elderberry juice concentrate at Kansas company

Your mother was a hamster, and your father smelled of elderberries. At the request of the U.S. Food and Drug Administration, U.S Marshals seized elderberry juice products that have been distributed by...

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Diners who vomit up their $500 meals

“There was one woman—it was a VIP tasting menu, I remember this: She just threw up on the table, in the middle of an extended tasting menu. They cleaned it up, and she “boot-and-rallied.” She finished...

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Safety and hygiene top UK concerns when eating out

The UK Food Standards Agency’s latest public attitudes tracker shows that the main food safety issue people continue to be concerned about is food hygiene when eating out. Other issues include food...

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Blessed are the cheesemakers who don’t include listeria

A Washington state cheese processor and distributor has agreed to keep its products off the market until they are proven safe for consumption as part of a consent decree of permanent injunction with...

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Why people ignore risk: EFSA@10 Conference opens with call to further...

Monty Python says Americans like to talk. Europeans sure like to talk. Amy is faux European, being a French professor, and she talks all the time. And who uses dick fingers around the word community?...

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What have the Romans ever done for us? Sanctimonious Super Bowl adverts

Chobani yogurt suffered some serious quality issues in Aug. 2013, and persistent consumer complaints has led the company to respond to declining sales with a full public accounting of quality control...

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Is that an African or European swallow? Can’t kill all the birds, but can...

Zoonotic enteric pathogenic bacteria can live in the intestinal tract of birds and can be transmitted to food animals or humans via fecal contact. In the present study, cecal samples were collected...

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Push to lift raw milk ban in Australia despite the death of 3-year-old

I used to be self-described lots of things, now I’m not so sure. Self-described food activist Rebecca Freer, who owns an organic store in Thornbury in Victoria (that’s in Australia) claims her rights...

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I’m a heterosexual man or not: Roman toilets gave no clear health benefit,...

The Romans are well known for introducing sanitation technology to Europe around 2,000 years ago, including public multi-seat latrines with washing facilities, sewerage systems, piped drinking water...

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Fancy food ain’t safe food: UK luxury Penarth hotel and restaurant receives...

A luxury hotel and restaurant in Penarth has been given a score of just one in its latest food hygiene rating. Following an inspection carried out by the local food safety officer, Holm House Hotel,...

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Outbreak of something at Lumby Days in Canada

I can’t help but think that Lumby, British Columbia, is named after lumberjacks, but perhaps I’m stereotyping. Lumby Interior Health is investigating following an outbreak at a Lumby Days’ event left...

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Hawthorne Effect hinders accurate hand hygiene observation, study says

Yeah, we used to have students loitering around bathrooms, but figured out fairly quick that didn’t work. So we would train co-workers to be the spies of shit (on people’s hands). Guess others have...

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When morning TV was fun: Monty Python on AM America

I’ve done a bunch of morning shows, in Canada, U.S., Australia, Germany, and other places, providing food safety info. This sounds like more fun: Monty Python in 1975, with Peter Jennings keeping a...

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Nearly 700 NYC restaurant-goers found something gross in their food last year

Yoav Gonen of the New York Post reports restaurant customers have called in a record number of complaints to the city’s 311 hot line for the second year in a row. Records show there were 10,373...

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‘Your mother was a hamster and your father smelt of elderberries’ There’s no...

I’ve applied for a bunch of Australian public service jobs, to pay the bills, support my family, but I loath myself for doing so. I should just write. Or taunt French people. One of my applications got...

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