Tomatoes and Salmonella

Doug and I are attending TrainCan’s Food Safety Forum in Toronto today.  The topic of the conference is all around food safety culture and changing behaviour — which fits really well with the iFSN infosheets.

In a response to an outbreak of Salmonella linked to certain types of raw tomatoes in the U.S., food service and grocery firms across North America have withdrawn tomatoes from their sites and meals.  The outbreak provided us with the focus of this week’s infosheet, which can be found here.

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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.