The Food Safety Network released its latest food safety infosheet – this time focusing on common foodborne illnesses found in foods consumed around the Easter holiday.
Food-safety experts share some advice: ‘Don’t eat poop’
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McClatchy-Tribure interviewed Dr. Doug Powell of the Food Safety Network:
E. coli in the spinach. Salmonella in the peanut butter. Listeria in the hot dogs. Seven major food recalls since July.
The Food Safety Network, which has a new home at Kansas State University, is dedicated to stopping the epidemic of food contamination that sickens 76 million people – one out of every four Americans – and kills 5,000 each year.
The network combines public awareness with an Internet-based information service and research projects in an effort to educate growers, consumers and workers.
Microbiologist Doug Powell started the organization more than a decade ago at the University of Guelph in Canada. Now an associate professor of food safety in Kansas State’s College of Veterinary Medicine, Powell is outspoken on good farming practices and good worker hygiene and blunt about what needs to be done.
‘‘It boils down to three words,’’ he said. ‘‘Don’t eat poop.’’Continue Reading Food-safety experts share some advice: ‘Don’t eat poop’
E. coli at Orange County, California, restaurant
7 E. coli cases tied to Orange County restaurant
An E. coli outbreak in Orange County has been traced to a restaurant, health officials said Monday. The seven people who tested positive for the dangerous bacterium dined at the same restaurant in Lake Forest, six of them March 23 or March 24, said Howard Sutter,
Tomato growers ask for regulation
Unlike the California leafy greens industry, which introduced a marketing agreement to avoid legislation and regulations over food safety issues, the Florida tomato industry is asking to be regulated, according to an article in the Palm Beach Post:
But in what could be the first successful move to establish enforceable standards, the Florida tomato-growing
Students sickened by milk served for school lunch
Students at a Connecticut school became ill after consuming milk that containted a food-grade sanitizer, according to a story posted at wfsb.com.
Six second-grade students at Kathleen E. Goodwin Elementary School fell ill after consuming the milk. A student at Old Saybrook Middle School also developed symptoms after drinking the milk that included dizziness,
Six second-grade students at Kathleen E. Goodwin Elementary School fell ill after consuming the milk. A student at Old Saybrook Middle School also developed symptoms after drinking the milk that included dizziness,