Foodborne Pathogens Every Foodservice Employee Should Know by Name
Tayler Greenwood2026-03-16T16:38:16+00:00Ask most foodservice employees what they're trying to prevent when they wash their hands or when they cook chicken to 165°F, or ground [...]
Quat Binding – Why this Can Have a Disastrous Impact on Your Sanitation Program.
Food Safety Experts2023-07-14T02:02:57+00:00In June, I had the opportunity to represent FoodHandler and speak on food safety behavior for customers of Martin Bros. Distributing in Waterloo, Iowa. One of the questions that was asked caught me a little off guard. The question was about quat binding. It caught me off guard not because it was a bad question, but only because it was not something I had previously been asked nor had not yet been exposed to the phenomenon. However, I soon learned that in certain jurisdictions, it is resulting in changes to how sanitizing cloths are to be stored in sanitizing buckets (or not) in the foodservice industry. When I returned home from the trip, I had to dig into it to learn about what quat binding is and how it might impact foodservice operations.
Sanitation, Sanitation, Where Art Thou?
Food Safety Experts2022-05-09T13:04:09+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 cross contamination, more precisely sanitation. Sanitation is another issue that employees don’t often do at home, so they discount the importance of it in the food production environment. That is to say that they have never made someone sick at home because they only clean their countertops and they have likely never sanitized their kitchen, so why is it so important in a foodservice facility?
