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CDC: Hepatitis A Deaths are vaccine preventable – it is past time to vaccinate Food Service Workers

Bill Marler

The CDC misses the point; granted, food service workers are not more at risk of getting hepatitis A because of their occupation, but they are a risk for spreading it to customers. While food service workers are not traditionally designated as having an increased risk of hepatitis A transmission, they are not free from risk.

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Effectively Targeting and Marketing to Gen Z

Modern Restaurant Management

This new year is a perfect time to begin shaping a long-term vision and identifying opportunities for growing your restaurant or food services business over the next ten years. The sheer market size of Gen Z and their discretionary spending dollars should make restaurants and food services businesses sit up and take notice.

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CDC: Food Service Workers are a low, but not a no risk of Hepatitis A infection

Bill Marler

The risk for secondary infection from hepatitis A–infected food handlers to food establishment patrons in these person-to-person hepatitis A outbreaks was <1% ( 173 ). However, as a lawyer, I have seen first-hand the impacts on consumers exposed to HAV positive food service workers. J Infect Dis 1992;166:518–24.

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US Hepatitis A Outbreaks have sickened 44,947, hospitalized 27,469 and killed 424 – all preventable by a Vaccine

Bill Marler

The CDC misses the point; granted, food service workers are not more at risk of getting hepatitis A because of their occupation, but they are a risk for spreading it to customers. While food service workers are not traditionally designated as having an increased risk of hepatitis A transmission, they are not free from risk.

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Publisher’s Platform: It is past time to vaccinate food service workers against Hep A

Food Safety News

The CDC misses the point; granted, food service workers are not more at risk of getting hepatitis A because of their occupation, but they are a risk for spreading it to customers. While food service workers are not traditionally designated as having an increased risk of hepatitis A transmission, they are not free from risk.

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Celebrating Ryan Conklin: AHF Leader & IFMA Silver Plate Award Honoree

AHF

Prior to 2009, AHF’s legacy associations, the American Society for Healthcare Food Service Administrators (ASHFSA) and the National Society for Healthcare Foodservice Management (HFM), proudly boasted a long and distinguished history of IFMA Silver Plate winners among their members.

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When will the next Leafy Green E. coli Shoe Drop?

Bill Marler

Consumers are still advised to not eat, and retailers and food service establishments to not sell or serve, any romaine lettuce harvested from the Salinas growing region. April 2012. Since 2017 there been over 500 people in the U.S. and Canada who have suffered E. coli O145. 5:MI, NY, OH, PA, TN. coli O157:H7. Multistate.

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