Sanitation, Sanitation, Where Art Thou?
Kevin Roberts2022-05-09T13:04:09+00:00Continuing the theme I picked up on a few months ago, discussing common causes of foodborne illness, I’d like to focus this blog on [...]
Handwashing: The Habit that Isn’t as Common as We May Think
Kevin Roberts2022-05-09T13:04:39+00:00Earlier this year, I started to focus our FoodHandler Food Safety blogs on common food safety issues faced in each foodservice operation across the [...]
Is Implementing a Color-Coded Food Safety Plan Right for your Operation?
Kevin Roberts2022-04-06T18:21:53+00:00Foodborne pathogens are by far the most prevalent cause of foodborne illness in the United States and across the world. There are 31 known [...]
Maintaining your Equipment: Is it the Missing Ingredient in your Recipe for Food Safety?
Kevin Roberts2022-04-06T17:46:08+00:00Although I am no longer in day-to-day operations, between our students and foodservice lab at the university and my volunteer activities in my local [...]
Contamination of Food: Let’s Get Physical
Kevin Roberts2022-03-21T18:32:46+00:00Earlier this month, we began a discussion about contamination of food. Our first blog focused on chemical contamination, but in this blog, I’d like [...]
Contamination of Food: Chemicals, Pesticides, and more, Oh My!
Kevin Roberts2022-03-03T22:00:07+00:00If you have followed our blogs, you have often heard us opine about food safety-related behavior and communication, food traceability, and other overarching food [...]
Communicating Food Safety Messages: The Follow-Up
Kevin Roberts2022-02-02T22:01:31+00:00Earlier this month, we posted our first SafeBites Webinar of 2022, Getting the Word Out: Communicating Your Organization’s Food Safety Practices, presented by [...]
Health code variance: What it is and why you might need one
Kevin Roberts2022-02-02T22:00:04+00:00I often receive questions from students and operators about various production practices within their operations and if a variance is required, and if [...]
Cleaning Up Biological Incidents is No Fun, but Preparation is Key to Protecting Everyone Involved
Kevin Roberts2022-01-06T14:58:27+00:00As I was sitting down to write the second blog for this month, I had an entirely different topic in mind, but then [...]
The Blank Canvas of a New Year: Don’t Leave your Food Safety Program out of your New Year’s Resolutions
Kevin Roberts2022-01-06T14:55:55+00:00Each year, we get the opportunity to begin a new year and turn to a new page, sort of speak. As we start [...]