New food safety infosheet: Skokie Country Club in Glencoe Illinois linked to Salmonella illnesses

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High class, chic kitchens aren’t immune from outbreaks. Neither are storied golf courses (including ones that have hosted a U.S. Open). The newest food safety infosheet focuses on the Skokie Golf Club in Glencoe, IL after being recently linked to an outbreak resulting in up to 80 cases of salmonellosis.

Food Safety Infosheet Highlights:
– The outbreak has resulted in 37 confirmed cases, 50 suspected cases and 8 hospitalization.
– Reunions moved following kitchen closure.
– Food handlers can transmit Salmonella without even showing symptoms.
– Only 3% of salmonellosis cases are officially reported.

Click here to download the infosheet.

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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.