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FDA Employee Health and Hygiene Handbook

I hope this message finds you well. I am writing to emphasize the critical importance of employee health and hygiene in maintaining the highest standards of food safety within your establishment.During my Food Safety trainings I often ask, “How many people have had an official employee illness training outside of taking this training? “.The answer […]

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Why are so many foods containing Bio-Engineered Ingredients?

Recently my social media feed has been bombarded with memes, Reels, and TikTok’s, about food labeled “Bio-Engineered food”.  Most of us have been consuming BE foods for a while. The food ingredients haven’t changed, but the labeling has.     Congress passed the National Bioengineered Food Disclosure Standard, requiring manufacturers to disclose when an ingredient is

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Do you have a positive food safety culture?

When I was a teenager, I worked at a large franchise fast food place.  I remember one night while closing the assistant manager told me to take the leftover toppings from the salad bar and pour them back into the original container.  Even my 16-year-old self knew that was wrong and it sent a message

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The risk of third party delivery services

The problem: The driver opens up the to go container to take a peak or worse a sampling of the food. By touching it, they could contaminate the food with bacteria or viruses, physical contamination could occur, or worst-case deliberate contamination such as spitting on the food. In a study done by US Foods they

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Selling homemade goods using cottage food laws

Do you make a great cookie or tasty home-baked bread?  Do your friends and family always ask you to decorate cakes for them? Have you ever thought about starting your own business from home?  You can have up to $25,000 in sales a year and not need a health permit.  Effective October 1, 2019 there

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