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Ireland monthly restaurant closures; doing the same thing and expecting a...
Every month about this time, Alan Reilly gets to roll out the same quote, saying he is disappointed in the high number of food business closures that month, adding something like, “We continue to find...
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How to have fewer people barfing from food? Inspections and government are...
It’s an easy story for beleaguered journalists: a belligerent government versus a belligerent union, with both making wild claims about food safety. Lost in the rhetoric is any concern about the people...
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Effective inspections: Be kind and considerate
Conducting food safety inspections requires interpersonal skills and technical expertise. This requirement is particularly important for agencies that adopt a compliance assistance approach by...
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Vermin violations
Restaurants and food venues at the California Angels baseball stadium have been cited by county health officials 118 times in the last 2 1⁄2 years for "vermin violations." The Orange County Register...
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Craig Hedberg, guest barfblogger: The most dangerous states for eating out-not!
On Friday March 14, 2008, Healthinspections.com published their ranking of the most dangerous states for eating out. The ranking was based on an analysis of 2006 foodborne outbreak surveillance data...
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Obama makes food safety statement: forms committee
U.S. President Barack Obama used his weekly radio – and YouTube – address today to bolster and reorganize the nation’s fractured food-safety system by forming a committee — the Food Safety Working...
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Lessons from Wales; fallacy of food safety inspections
Do more inspectors make food safer? No. The latest evidence is from Professor Hugh Pennington, who concluded in a report last week that serious failings at every step in the food chain allowed butcher...
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Canadian politicians beware: Maple Leaf’s Michael McCain isn’t really that...
He may ooze empathy and smooth, but Canadian politicians on the Standing Committee on Agriculture and Agri-Food’s Subcommittee on Food Safety beware: Michael McCain (below, not exactly as shown) really...
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A poem for public health
I’m surprised whenever an outbreak of foodborne illness is picked up in the U.S., except the most egregious violations of sanitation and safety, where large numbers of people are sickened. Those...
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Florida not inspecting food at hospitals, nursing homes
In a few weeks we’ll be leaving for a month of seaside (Gulf-side) writing in Florida. As food safety dude and axman Roy Costa has pointed out, I sure hope I don’t end up in a Florida hospital, because...
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