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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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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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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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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: Hepatitis A outbreaks have sickened tens of thousands and killed 424; all preventable by a vaccine

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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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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Congratulations AHF Member Dave Reeves – IFMA Silver Plate Award Recipient

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Previous IFMA Gold & Silver Plate Award in Healthcare Winners that are also AHF Members: 2023 Randy Sparrow Director, Food & Environmental Services ProHealth Care 2022 Cheryl Shimmin Executive Director of Retail, Culinary, & Nutrition Care Kettering Health 2021 Antoinette “Toni” Watkins Director, System Nutrition Riverside Health System (..)