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Pink Floyd and Fargo Rock City: food service and music
PhD student Ben Chapman went and worked in a restaurant as part of his food safety research. He saw lots of things, but his most memorable description of kitchen work was that he had to listen to a lot...
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Food service workers unite: Pink Floyd wins court battle with EMI over downloads
The British rock band Pink Floyd, a favorite for North American food service workers, won its court battle with EMI on Thursday, with a ruling that prevents the record company from selling single...
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Doctors work while sick: study
People shouldn’t work preparing or serving food when they are sick because they may spread the illness. That’s become a food safety mantra, and yet outbreaks are repeatedly traced back to sick food...
View ArticleAnother brick in the wall: schools don’t want no pink slime
AP reports U.S. school districts are turning up their noses at pink slime, the beef product that caused a public uproar earlier this year. The U.S. Department of Agriculture says the vast majority of...
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Pink Floyd and Fargo Rock City: food service and music
PhD student Ben Chapman went and worked in a restaurant as part of his food safety research. He saw lots of things, but his most memorable description of kitchen work was that he had to listen to a lot...
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Food service workers unite: Pink Floyd wins court battle with EMI over downloads
The British rock band Pink Floyd, a favorite for North American food service workers, won its court battle with EMI on Thursday, with a ruling that prevents the record company from selling single...
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Doctors work while sick: study
People shouldn’t work preparing or serving food when they are sick because they may spread the illness. That’s become a food safety mantra, and yet outbreaks are repeatedly traced back to sick food...
View ArticleAnother brick in the wall: schools don’t want no pink slime
AP reports U.S. school districts are turning up their noses at pink slime, the beef product that caused a public uproar earlier this year. The U.S. Department of Agriculture says the vast majority of...
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On the toilet 30X a day: UK couple’s Mexico holiday hell after contracting...
Tony Larner of the Mirror reports a British couple’s dream Mexican holiday was left in tatters after they were struck down Cyclospora. Sandra and Lee Harper splashed out £3,700 on an all-inclusive...
View ArticleNo cause IDed, but UK children told to get back to class after E. coli outbreak
There were 71 pupils absent at Carlogie Primary on Monday which was a fifth of the school roll of 346 with 46 being kept off as a precaution. On Tuesday 57 were absent with 37 kept off as a precaution....
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Is there anybody out there? Physicians and handwashing
Our objectives were to evaluate the utility of electronic hand hygiene counting devices in outpatient settings and the impact of results feedback on physicians’ hand hygiene behaviors. We installed 130...
View ArticleWe don’t need no edumacation
For all the folks out there trying to educate consumers and others about food safety, forget it. Stick with stories. Pink Floyd figured that out in 1980, in what would become the soundtrack for my...
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Rise of the machines: Tools to know if Salmonella will hit your livestock
Increasingly, routine surveillance and monitoring of foodborne pathogens using whole-genome sequencing is creating opportunities to study foodborne illness epidemiology beyond routine outbreak...
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Dreams are weird, so is the brain
I had this dream, where I was coaching on the ice in Brisbane for a few hours, helping do evaluations of kids – male and female – and running them through drills. As the kids got changed and the girls...
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Raw is risky: Mongolia: Careful with that marmot, Eugene
Ryan Miller of USA Today reports a Mongolian couple died from the bubonic plague after eating raw marmot meat, sparking a quarantine that trapped tourists for days, officials said Monday. According to...
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