125 illnesses linked to church fundraiser

Food Safety Infosheet Highlights:
-Community dinners can be great fundraisers but because they may be held at temporary sites and staffed by volunteers special precautions are needed.
-BBQ plates prepared by volunteers likely contained Salmonella.
-14 individuals who ate the BBQ plates were hospitalized with symptoms including abdominal cramping, diarrhea and vomiting.

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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.