Hot off the Press: The 2022 Model Food Code has been Released! Part Two.
Kevin Roberts2023-01-09T22:00:16+00:00Earlier in the month, we started a discussion about the changes to the 2022 Food Code. If you missed that post, late in December [...]
Hot off the Press: The 2022 Model Food Code has been Released! Part One.
Kevin Roberts2023-01-09T21:57:28+00:00It has finally arrived! Yes, the new year has arrived – but I was not referring to it. I was referring to the new [...]
Exclusion and Restrictions: Understanding Employee Health and the Food Code
Kevin Roberts2022-12-12T18:58:53+00:00I received a call earlier in the month from a foodservice operator who suspected that one of their employees may have fallen ill and [...]
Welcome to National Food Safety Education Month!
Kevin Roberts2022-09-09T16:19:51+00:00In September of each year, we not only have the opportunity to celebrate Labor Day, but we also welcome National Food Safety Education Month! [...]
Protecting Fresh Produce Post-Harvest, Integral to Safe Food
Kevin Roberts2022-08-09T19:45:28+00:00During the height of the summer, at least in the Midwest, farmers markets are in full swing and fresh produce is plentiful. Every backyard [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
A Date with Destiny: Understanding Food Labels and Product Dating
Kevin Roberts2021-12-08T14:23:11+00:00Like clockwork, around this time of year, we start to see an increase in questions related to food labels, so I thought I [...]