Fat Duck outbreak redux — food safety infosheet version

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This week’s food safety infosheet, directed at foodservice staff is attached here. The infosheet focuses on an outbreak at Heston Blumenthal’s Fat Duck restaurant which happened earlier this year. While norovirus illnesses were initially linked to patrons who ate shell???sh, health authorities believe that ill staff members handling other food also contributed to the length and scope of the outbreak.

Michelin Stars don’t mean anything when it comes to food safety culture.

Download the Fat Duck food safety infosheet here.

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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.