Chilling Out: A Quick Guide to Thawing Food in Foodservice
Tayler Greenwood2025-02-23T23:08:06+00:00Thawing food and cooling food are two challenges we face daily in foodservice operations. Regardless of the type of facility you operate, you [...]
Managing Food Safety During the Foodservice Holiday Rush
Tayler Greenwood2024-12-09T21:51:17+00:00The holiday season is a time of increased activity and demand in foodservice operations, from catering large events to preparing meals for many holiday [...]
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 [...]
The Hidden Dangers: Allergens in Your Foodservice Operation
Tayler Greenwood2024-11-05T20:55:47+00:00It has been a while since we have addressed or discussed allergens in the blogs. In today’s foodservice landscape, understanding and managing allergens is [...]
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 [...]
Mitigating Risk in the Overall Food Safety System
Food Safety Experts2021-10-18T19:28:12+00:00In the 1990s, when I took my first food safety class, we learned about a new system called HACCP. Ok, maybe it wasn’t that new, but it sure seemed new at the time. My memory has certainly faded since that class in 1997, but I do recall our discussion in the class about how HACCP would become the norm for all foodservice establishments in the future. Fast forward almost 25 years and the only foodservice operation mandated to have a HACCP program is school foodservice - certainly not the widespread adoption that we thought might come about.
