New International Food Safety Network Infosheet — Cereal potentially linked to illnesses

This weeks infosheet is all about last weeks announcement of a Salmonella Agona outbreak linked to Malt-O-Meal cereal and what operators and food handlers need to know about it.

Infosheet highlights:
At least 23 people in 14 states have been sickened by the same strain of Salmonella found in breakfast cereals recalled by Malt-O-Meal.
What can you do during this recall?
-Ask at your store or restaurant about the use of any of these products
-Remove the product from your shelves or stock room
-Return the recalled product to where you purchased it or your supplier
-For more information on the date codes of recalled products including pictures see: www.malt-o-meal.com/recallinfo/

Click here to download the infosheet.

The newest food safety infosheet, a graphical one-page food safety-related story directed at food handlers is also now available at foodsafetyinfosheets.ksu.edu. Infosheets are created weekly by iFSN and are posted in restaurants, retail stores, on farms and used in training throughout the world.  If you have any infosheet topic requests, or photos, please contact me at bchapman@uoguelph.ca.

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About Ben Chapman

Dr. Ben Chapman is a professor and food safety extension specialist at North Carolina State University. As a teenager, a Saturday afternoon viewing of the classic cable movie, Outbreak, sparked his interest in pathogens and public health. With the goal of less foodborne illness, his group designs, implements, and evaluates food safety strategies, messages, and media from farm-to-fork. Through reality-based research, Chapman investigates behaviors and creates interventions aimed at amateur and professional food handlers, managers, and organizational decision-makers; the gate keepers of safe food. Ben co-hosts a biweekly podcast called Food Safety Talk and tries to further engage folks online through Instagram, Twitter, Facebook, YouTube and, maybe not surprisingly, Pinterest. Follow on Twitter @benjaminchapman.