Before They Arrive: Your Health Inspection Prep List
Michelle Greenwood2025-04-10T16:02:31+00:00A few weeks ago, I welcomed our local health inspector into a class I was teaching about food service management. I was reminded [...]
What Have We Already Learned from the Most Recent E. Coli Outbreak?
Tayler Greenwood2024-11-05T20:56:29+00:00In late-September and peaking in very early-October, reports of increased Escherichia coli (E. coli) 0157:H7 cases started to surface in the Western part of [...]
Ensuring Food Safety in Emergency Foodservice Operations
Tayler Greenwood2024-10-07T16:00:32+00:00As we were reminded earlier this month, emergencies can strike unexpectedly, whether due to natural disasters, health crises, or supply chain disruptions. Hurricane Helene, [...]
Ensuring Food Safety in Emergency Foodservice Operations
Tayler Greenwood2024-10-07T15:51:51+00:00Last week, many of us across the United States watched in disbelief as the southeastern portion of the United States was ravaged by Hurricane [...]
Despite Gallup Polls, the US Does Have the Safest Food Supply in the World
Tayler Greenwood2024-09-10T17:22:42+00:00As I settled into work one morning last week, a headline popped up on my computer noting that confidence in the government’s ability to [...]
The Critical Role of Staff Training and Education in Food Safety for Foodservice Professionals
Tayler Greenwood2024-07-10T18:25:11+00:00In mid-June, my colleagues and I at Kansas State University offered our Serving up Science: The Path to Safe Food in Schools course. The [...]
Halfway Gone, A Mid-Year Food Safety Check-up for your Foodservice Business
Tayler Greenwood2024-07-10T18:17:00+00:00July is often a time when a portion of us in the foodservice business are at our prime. In many areas of the country, [...]
Are Grades for Foodservice Inspections a Good Idea?
Food Safety Experts2023-06-05T19:49:12+00:00I generally try to stay away from controversial topics in my blog, but this is one I thought it might be interesting to discuss. Occasionally on my travels, I will come across a state or a local jurisdiction that requires foodservice inspection scores be posted in the window of the establishment. The idea is to allow would-be customers the ability to see how the foodservice operation in which they are about to eat scored on their latest health inspection.
