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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

— OPINION — Since the outbreaks were first identified in 2016, 37 states have publicly reported the following as of January 12, 2024: Cases: 44,947 Hospitalizations: 27,469 (61%) Deaths: 424 Hardly a week goes by that there is not yet another announcement of a hepatitis A positive employee putting co-workers, customers and the restaurant brand at risk.

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What level of digitization is optimum for the hospitality industry?

Hospitality Net

Recently, a major hotel chain top executive stated that "Hospitality will never be fully digitized.” I agree 100%. Hospitality, like all other industries with physical assets, simply cannot be fully digitized, including industries such as agriculture, construction, manufacturing, commercial real estate, healthcare, etc. Even Amazon, the most digitized company on planet Earth has over 500 million square feet of owned and rented physical warehouses.

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Food safety know-how can help save organic acreage

Food Safety News

Getting tangled up in two different sets of regulations can be a headache — or even worse, a reason to choose one part of your business over another. That can be the case if you’re an organic farmer, especially a small- or mid-sized one already following food safety regulations. You can’t just turn the record-keeping required by both programs over to someone else, as can happen on large farms flush with cash.

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Harnessing Apple Vision Pro and Spatial Computing for Transformative Efficiency in the Hospitality Industry

Hospitality Net

In the intricate dance of numbers that define the budgeting and forecasting process within the hospitality sector, the introduction of Apple’s Vision Pro and spatial computing could be the leap forward needed to bridge the persistent gap between corporate strategy and operational execution. This gap, often navigated by the finance team, has traditionally been a source of inefficiency and frustration, exacerbated by the reliance on numerous software intermediaries that create silos within organiz

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Food & Beverage Industry Report 2024

Driven by a diverse and exciting ecosystem of passionate, ambitious, and often young entrepreneurs, the Food & Beverage (F&B) sector is a highly competitive environment full of immense challenges and exciting opportunities. Expert Market’s 2024 industry report, sponsored by Toast, is informed by a survey of 522 U.S. food and beverage professionals, from restaurant owners to food service managers, providing insights into the real-time challenges and opportunities within the industry.

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ECDC reveals key foodborne pathogen data for 2022

Food Safety News

More details about the impact of seven kinds of foodborne infections in Europe in 2022 have been released. The reports cover Campylobacter, Salmonella, Yersinia, Shiga toxin-producing E. coli (STEC), Listeria, Shigella, and Hepatitis A. They were published by the European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control (ECDC). Listeria and STEC are increasing in Europe and the European Economic Area (EEA), and in 2022, they were at higher levels than before the COVID-19 pandemic.

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The Paradigm Shift in New Economic Value from AI-Powered Hotel Websites

Hospitality Net

Throughout the history of technology adoption, a new invention doesn’t necessarily take off because of direct, apples-to-apples savings versus the old guard, but rather because of the new value that this innovation unlocks, at first on an incremental then later on an exponential basis.

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