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What is it with Cantaloupe and Bacteria?

Bill Marler

Like players and the baseball industry, incentives are wrong with cantaloupe growers – actually all food – and the retail industry. In 2011, Listeria -tainted cantaloupes grown in Eastern Colorado sickened 147 in two dozen states, killing at least 33. The farm, as with most food audits, got a superior rating of 96%.

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The Importance of NSF Certification for Restaurant Tools and Knives

Modern Restaurant Management

In 2011, the U.S. government created the Food Safety Modernization Act , which transformed the nation’s food safety system by shifting the attention from responding to foodborne illness to preventing it.

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OK, I admit it – Did I miss if the FDA deemed Peanut Butter a “High-Risk” food yet?

Bill Marler

Stephen Sundlof of the Food and Drug Administration told lawmakers that agency inspectors will start to routinely collect samples for bacterial testing whenever they go into a peanut butter manufacturing facility. “We That means producers would be required to follow written food safety plans to prevent contamination.

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PEW: 12 Charts Explore America’s Salmonella Problem—and Steps to Solve It Stronger rules for poultry would spur action on farms

Bill Marler

Food safety interventions on farms, such as vaccines targeting harmful serotypes, have likely contributed to meaningful reductions in product contamination and human illness. 2011) (“[A]n agency ‘is required to at least definitively respond to. [a] J Food Prot. Food and Drug Administration Retail Food Risk Factors Study.

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Looking Back on Bon Appétit’s Decades of Support for Farmworkers’ Rights

Bon Appetit Management Company

In 2009, we signed the Fair Food Agreement (FFA) spearheaded by the Coalition of Immokalee Workers to ensure better wages and working conditions for tomato pickers in South Florida. In 2011, we hosted TEDxFruitvale , a one-day conference focused on amplifying the voices of farmworkers and labor movements in the US.

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Be Proactive and Don’t End Up in Food Safety Jail!

FoodHandler

Ok, I admit – there really is no food safety jail. But there is jail and, while it is uncommon, you can be sent there for not practicing food safety. You might be thinking to yourself that this took place in Wales, and you wouldn’t go to jail in the United States for a food safety violation.

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#LifeOrDeathRecipe Challenge and ‘A Woman’s Place’

Modern Restaurant Management

Sweadner Society of the Fairfield County’s Community (FCC) Foundation and the FCC Board of Trustees in 2011. He began his life-long career in the hospitality business at the food service division of Stouffer in Newark, N.J., He married Lorraine Pietryka on Aug. 20, 1955, and served in the U.S.

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