Salmonellosis transferred by delicatessen workers

Food Safety Infosheet Highlights:
– Staff member had been in contact with infected chickens.
– Food handlers can transmit Salmonella  in their poop without knowing; you don’t have to be ill to pass it on.
– Wash hands with soap after handling birds, baby chicks or reptiles and after contact with pet feces.
 

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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.