Food Safety Infosheet: Salmonella linked to Memphis BBQ restaurant

Moving to the South has resulted in a few changes in my eating habits — especially the introduction of BBQ. Megan wrote earlier today about different names for the cooking tool: BBQ vs grill.

In North Carolina BBQ is the product (and it isn’t actually cooked on a grill). BBQ restaurants are a big deal around here. The regional differences are somewhat crazy (Eastern NC vs Western NC vs mustard-based Low Country SC vs Memphis vs GA BBQ) but I’m trying them all. BBQ restaurants, like all foodservice sites, can be hit with outbreaks.

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And this week’s food safety infosheet — A Salmonella outbreak at a BBQ restaurant in Memphis.

Click here to download the infosheet.

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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.