Your Guide to Approved Food Safety Training Programs in 2025
Tayler Greenwood2025-11-13T18:03:59+00:00Early in my foodservice career, I persuaded the owners of the restaurants I managed to train all our production employees in food safety. [...]
Ongoing Outbreaks: What We Can Learn from the Most Recent Carrot and Cucumber Outbreaks
Tayler Greenwood2024-12-09T21:44:44+00:00Last month in our blog, we highlighted the recent E. Coli outbreak stemming from onions served at McDonald’s restaurants. In our blog, we highlighted [...]
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 [...]
Navigating the Latest Listeria Outbreak…again
Tayler Greenwood2024-09-10T16:49:57+00:00Welcome to Food Safety Education Month! Late last month in my blog we talked about this once-a-year time to focus on educating your employees [...]
Evaluating Food Safety
Emily Kinateder2018-09-01T00:21:10+00:00One of the suggestions I made in the last blog was to assess the food safety culture in your organization by observing the food handling techniques of workers. Let’s explore that some more. You can do an overall assessment or you can hone in on specific areas of the operation, such as production or cleaning practices. Remember, when the environmental health inspector visits your operation, he/she just gets a snapshot of what is going on in your operation on that particular day at that specific time. You are there nearly every day, so you have a much better understanding on what really happens in your operation.
Produce Safety: Special Considerations
Emily Kinateder2018-08-24T17:22:46+00:00In our last blog, I talked about general produce safety. Today, I want to talk about some special products—melons, tomatoes, leafy greens, and sprouts. These are all foods that have a history of bacterial contamination leading to foodborne illness. I also want to discuss salad bars because they have some special risks.
Fresh and Tasty Produce, but are there Food Safety Concerns?
Emily Kinateder2021-08-04T20:03:22+00:00One of the best things about the middle of summer is the wonderful variety of tasty fresh produce that is available. I hope you are enjoying the fruits of the harvest because it has great flavor and provides us with a variety of important vitamins, minerals, and fiber needed to maintain good health.
