Food Safety Infosheet Highlights:
– UK Food Standard Agency has recently reported the results of a study demonstrating spray of bacteria up to 3 feet from the kitchen sink after poultry was washed.
– Clean and sanitize utensils and work surfaces after preparing raw poultry.
– Wash and dry hands after handling and preparing poultry as well as following dishwashing.
Food safety infosheets are created weekly and are posted in restaurants, retail stores, on farms and used in training throughout the world. If you have any infosheet topic requests, or photos, please contact Ben Chapman at benjamin_chapman@ncsu.edu.
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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.
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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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Food Safety Infosheet Highlights:
– A Princess Cruises ship, the Grand Princess, has recently been linked to a second consecutive outbreak of Norovirus affecting 57 of the 2,468 passengers on-board.
– To control the spread of Norovirus, use the proper tools when cleaning up vomit; tools include disposable latex gloves, a filter mask, and apron.
– Many hand sanitizers are of limited effectiveness at reducing norovirus on hands.
– Pathogens can be aerosolized in vomit and be spread outside visually affected areas.
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Food Safety Infosheet Highlights:
– Clusters of E. coli O145 illnesses in the North East and Midwest 60 ill in Michigan, New York and Ohio.
– Freshway Foods of Sydney, Ohio is voluntarily recalling products containing romaine lettuce with a use by date of May 12 or earlier because they may be contaminated with E. coli O145.
– The products were sold under the Freshway brand and Imperial Sysco brand.
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Food Safety Infosheet Highlights:
– Source of outbreak is still unknown; hygiene, cross-contamination and food all potential factors
– 4-year-old Ronan Wilson’s symptoms included vomit and feces red with blood, lungs filling with liquid and brain swelling
– 13 cases of E. coli O157:H7 were confirmed with some individuals showing no symptoms
– Practice good hygiene, especially food handlers who also care for children (including handwashing after handling diapers).
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Food Safety Infosheet Highlights:
– It’s not just cute baby poop; Norovirus, Shigella and Salmonella can be passed through poop (even baby poop) to food and cause illnesses.
– In 2007 an outbreak of foodborne illness, leading to 4 hospitalizations, was linked to an employee changing the diaper of a diarrhea-stricken toddler in the kitchen of a Maryland Chuck E. Cheese.
– Remind servers to clean and sanitize tables after service; don’t change babies (especially any with diarrhea) in the kitchen.
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Food Safety Infosheet Highlights:
– Since December 2009 three oyster-linked outbreaks resulting in over 300 illnesses have been reported in the U.S.
– Ensure that you buy oysters from licensed, reputable suppliers.
– Ask your suppliers about their food safety practices and harvesting sites.
– Tell patrons that steaming is not always an effective cooking step for oysters; steamed is not a safe alternative to raw.
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Food Safety Infosheet Highlights:
– 7 of 21 linked cases required hospitalization
– Shigella is shed in the poop of infected individuals and for up to two weeks after symptoms have ended. Handwashing is a risk control factor.
– Ron and Sarah Bowers have filed a lawsuit on behalf of their two-year-old son, who began displaying symptoms of shigellosis (nausea, and abdominal cramping) on February 27.
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Food Safety Infosheet Highlights:
-Poor sanitation or cross-contamination may have led to the closure.
-Listeria monocytogenes can be deadly for the elderly.
-In 2008, 43 individuals became ill and 22 died during an outbreak from Listeria-contaminated deli meats in Canada. The average age of victims was 77.
Food safety infosheets are created weekly and are posted in restaurants, retail stores, on farms and used in training throughoutthe world. If you have any infosheet topic requests, or photos, please contact Ben Chapman at benjamin_chapman@ncsu.edu.
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