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Celebrity chef’s food safety habits need improvement: Study

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Celebrity chefs are cooking up poor food safety habits, according to a Kansas State University study. Kansas State University food safety experts Edgar Chambers IV and Curtis Maughan, along with Tennessee...

Who is Teaching Hawaii Food Safety to Food Handlers?

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According to the CDC, from 2014-2015, Hawaii experienced 18 food borne related outbreaks, sickening over 1,000 people, causing 211 hospitalizations, and 6 deaths. In 2016, two very public food borne illness...

Avocados: The key to preventing Listeria in ready-to-eat foods

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Consumer demand for food products formulated without synthetic additives has increased. However, food still has to be safe for consumers to eat, so food scientists are looking for ways to replace synthetic...

FDA: ‘Bottom line for you and your kids is don’t eat raw dough’

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The multi-state Shiga toxin-producing E. coli O121 outbreak that has sickened more than three dozen people in 20 states has been linked to flour produced at the General Mills facility in Kansas City,...

US Senators Gillibrand, Feinstein call on USDA for revised Salmonella testing

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U.S. Senators Kirsten Gillibrand and Dianne Feinstein and Representatives Rosa Luisa DeLauro and Louise Slaughter today wrote to the U.S. Department of Agriculture urging them to revise current pathogen...

West Virginia floods: Disaster Declaration signed, Tetanus shots and Food Safety

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Ten inches of rain in a very short period Thursday has resulted in the worst flooding West Virginia has seen in four decades and ‘among the worst in a century for some parts of the state’....

Taiwan reports 1st botulism case, source still unknown

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The Taiwan Centers for Disease Control (Taiwan CDC) announced this year’s first case of botulism in a 66-year-old female who resides in Pingtung County. On February 25, 2016, she sought medical attention...

FDA finalizes ‘mad cow disease’ rules

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On Thursday, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration today issued a rule finalizing three previously-issued interim final rules designed to further reduce the potential risk of bovine spongiform encephalopathy...

Chipotle outbreaks: Steve Ells letter to customers

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Chipotle founder and CEO, Steve Ells, following his public apology on national television , has published a letter on their official website concerning the E. coli and norovirus outbreaks and the steps...

Outbreaks: How does your state stack up?

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A new report released today found that more than half (28) of states score a five or lower out of 10 key indicators related to preventing, detecting, diagnosing and responding to outbreaks.   The report,...