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What’s on those cloths used to wipe tables at restaurants?
There’s a reason silverware is often delivered on or in a napkin at a restaurant: to prevent contact with the gunk on the table. All proper-mannered people will unwrap the knife and fork and spoon and...
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Yo Yelp, I doesn’t need you cause I got straight to the manager
An answer to the age-old Canadian problem of polite in public: you don’t have to tell that waiter to wash his hands after a number 2 in the next stall, just text it to his boss. msnbc.com reports a new...
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Nosestretcher alert: does washing lettuce make it safer? Do inspections make...
There’s some myths floating around New Brunswick after an outbreak of E. coli O157 was linked to the Jungle Jim’s restaurant in Miramichi. Dr. Eilish Cleary, New Brunswick’s chief medical officer of...
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Consumers as CCPs; Beijing food poisoning victims urged to save vomit, feces...
Poop samples are not easy to collect for testing, especially if you’ve got some foodborne-inspired runs. Collecting vomit samples could be viewed by many as just gross. Beijing health authorities now...
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Restaurant tables are not for potty training
A Utah mother channeling Brittney Spears was caught potty training her two daughters at the dining table of a Utah restaurant. Kimberly Decker posted on her blog this week a photo of a toddler sitting...
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10 sick in E coli outbreak at Belfast restaurant
A Belfast restaurant has voluntarily closed after an outbreak of E. coli O157. U.TV reports 10 confirmed or suspected cases of food poisoning that have been identified are linked to Flicks in Cityside...
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’I’ve been eating numerous people’s saliva’ New eatery in China linked to one...
Yeah, but it’s probably OK if it’s been cooked. Shanghai Daily reports the owner of a hotpot restaurant that closed about three months ago for reusing the soup bases is a major investor in a similar...
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77 sick On the Border; Washington restaurant cleared to reopen after...
Clark County health officials lifted the closure order for a restaurant in Vancouver, Wash. that was linked to at least 23 confirmed salmonella cases and as many as 54 more. On the Border Mexican Grill...
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Rotten meat, crappy toilets confront those in Hurricane Sandy’s path
Fish guts flowing down a Union Square street. Untreated sewage in the Hudson River. Spoiled Haagen-Dazs dumped on a deli floor. Toilets that won’t flush. Superstorm Sandy has left a mess behind in a...
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Norovirus can withstand typical restaurant dishwashing measures
Restaurant dishes and silverware may be an overlooked place where people can catch stomach viruses, according to a new study published today on the PLOS ONE website. While the current industry...
View ArticleMancini speaks: hands on food safety training
The importance of training food handlers is acknowledged as critical to effective food hygiene. However, the effectiveness of traditional food safety training remains uncertain. Traditionally food...
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UK owner banned from running restaurants for life
The Guardian reports the former owner of a Worksop, U.K. restaurant who breached safety and food hygiene regulations has avoided being sent to prison. But he was banned from ever running a food...
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Video reveals rodents at Brisbane restaurant
This video stuff is everywhere, and people and proprietors can’t hide. The Courier Mail reports rodents have been caught on CCTV in a Brisbane CBD shopping center, according to owners of an Indian...
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Over 100 Salmonella cases now linked to restaurant; 60 additional illnesses...
ACT Chief Health Officer Dr Paul Kelly today said that ACT Health is currently investigating an outbreak of Salmonella gastroenteritis linked to a local restaurant. Over 100 suspected cases of...
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EU to ban olive oil jugs from restaurants under guise of hygiene
The European Union is to ban olive oil jugs and dipping bowls from restaurant tables in a move described by one of Britain’s top cooks as authoritarian and damaging to artisanal food makers. The small...
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10 sick; Texas E. coli outbreak linked to ground beef from local restaurant
The source of the E. coli outbreak in Brazos County, Texas, has been linked to ground beef from a local restaurant, according to a press release from the Brazos County Health Department. Health types...
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Pubic hair in meal means I’m not paying; except it’s mine; caught on video
Forty-year-old UK man Lee Tyers was recently sentenced to 14 days in jail for trying to get out of paying the check at Jamal’s Indian Restaurant by putting his own pubic hair in his food. According to...
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UK blame game; where is food contaminated? Everywhere, not just home
The blame game lives on in the UK. Haringey Borough Council says “the authority’s food safety teams, part of the Food Standards Agency, investigated 210 complaints of food poisoning but found no...
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£9,350 food safety fine for London takeaway
Mohammed Nazakat, owner of Flavour Chicken in South Street, has to pay out a total of £9,350 after being fined £750 for each offence plus £2600 in costs. Havering Council officers became concerned...
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Restaurants in China spike meals with opiates to keep diners coming back?
Two south Chinese restaurants were found to be serving their food with poppy seed powder–which contains addictive substances like codeine and morphine–to ensure diners would come back for more....
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