No one doubts to importance of food safety for protecting ourselves and our families. Sometimes it seems too simplistic. Other times it seems complex and overwhelming to "cover all the bases" and incorporate all the appropriate steps in food preparation -especially when you are...
Did you know? It is Flu Season in the Southern Hemisphere.
The season occurs during the cold half of the year in each hemisphere. During periods of cooler temperature, influenza cases increase roughly tenfold or more. Despite higher incidence of manifestations of the flu during...
Buffet style serving is an efficient and flexible way of serving foods to larger numbers of people. Food can be displayed attractively so that guests can have easy access to festive foods and make lots of choices. But this method of entertaining and serving holiday...
Baking cookies is a critical element of the holiday traditions of many families. Most of us have fond memories of baking cookies in December. The smell of cookies baking can instantly take us to memories of happy holidays. But there is a risk of foodborne...
FDA Constituent Update - November 17, 2016
For nearly three decades the U.S. Food and Drug Administration in partnership with the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Food Safety and Inspection Service has conducted annual Food Safety Surveys to gauge and track the public’s understanding of proper food...
Food recalls, outbreaks of foodborne illness, contaminated produce - making headlines almost every week. My community, Lincoln, Nebraska, has recently been touched by foodborne illness like so many others in the USA. It is time that communities unite to educate and demonstrate food safety. Public...
Stop! Resist the temptation to get the children a baby chick as part of your Easter/Spring celebration. Tagging along with those irresistible baby chicks many families “adopt” during Easter season, is a nanobug that you surely didn’t want to bring into your home: Salmonella enteritidis....
A few words about reusable shopping bags:
Reusable shopping bags are promoted to help us reduce waste, but they are not always food safe. The fabric or materials used in these bags can become contaminated with nanobugs like Salmonella enteritidis or E. coli or Listeria monocytogenes...
Improving Influenza Vaccination Rates Especially in Health Care Settings
Statistics show that high immunization rates of hospital employees produces lower mortality rates from influenza in hospitalized patients. Dr. Greg Poland of the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, MN. has passionately championed research to help drive health care...
