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The Importance of NSF Certification for Restaurant Tools and Knives

Modern Restaurant Management

In 2011, the U.S. Most products that receive the certification bear the NSF mark on their packaging to help buyers make educated purchases. 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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COVID-19 Fuels Growth in Organic Food Options

Modern Restaurant Management

Though certified organic farms have increased 56 percent from 2011, this still only makes up less than one percent of total acres of American farmland, according to Pew Research Center. In the early days of Clean Juice, we did not have USDA-certified organic purchasing power established.

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Outbreak Database – Decades of Cantaloupe Outbreaks – Chemicals, Campylobacter, Salmonella, E. coli, Norovirus and Listeria

Bill Marler

Cantaloupes were purchased whole and pre-cut. The cantaloupe was purchased whole or eaten as part of a fruit salad or garnish. Kunik Company of McAllen, Texas, who had purchased it from a Mexican producer. Among persons for whom information is available, reported illness onset ranged from July 31, 2011, through October 27, 2011.

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What you needed to know BEFORE the Salmonella Cantaloupe Outbreak – You should have watched Poisoned

Bill Marler

Here is a sampling: Caito Foods Melon Salmonella Outbreak – Multistate (2018) Chamberlain Farms Cantaloupe Salmonella Outbreak – Multistate (2012) Del Monte Cantaloupe Salmonella Outbreak Lawsuit – Nationwide (2011) Susie Cantaloupe Salmonella Outbreak Lawsuit – Washington (2002) Viva Cantaloupe Salmonella Outbreak Lawsuit – Washington, California (..)

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If history is a guide, no obvious common link between E. coli O121 and Falafel

Bill Marler

Among these 15 ALDI shoppers, 6 reported eating Earth Grown brand frozen falafel purchased from ALDI in the week before getting sick. 2011 Outbreak of STEC Linked to Contaminated Water at Campgrounds, Utah. State and local public health officials are interviewing people about the foods they ate in the week before they got sick.

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Did you know that FSIS has a zero tolerance for Salmonella in beef served to school kids, but not for the rest of us?

Bill Marler

Some of that chicken is purchased through typical commercial channels, but schools can also obtain it via the Poultry Products Purchase Program, which is administered by USDA’s Agricultural Marketing Service (AMS). Chicken is a major component of the meals served to students. Nevertheless, Salmonella remains the second-most common?cause

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What to know during a romaine lettuce E. coli outbreak

Bill Marler

Throw it away or return it to the place of purchase. hydroponically- and greenhouse-grown), throw it away or return it to the place of purchase. If this voluntary label indicates that the romaine lettuce was grown in “Salinas” (whether alone or with the name of another location) do not eat it. Lettuce: Romaine or Iceberg. Multistate.

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