Foodborne diseases are usually caused by consuming foods that are stored at an inappropriate temperature. This study aims to evaluate the knowledge of safe food temperature control among restaura...
https://www.barfblog.com/2021/07/surveys-still-suck-temperature-awareness-in-saudi-arabia/
Patricia Miller of the State University of New York at Albany writes in her Doctor of Public Health dissertation that within the United States there are over 8,000 farmers markets, that sell dire...
This paper came out in Feb. but was lost in the Covid haze. Observation is always better than self-reported survey BS (I cooked the turkey below, in Brisbane, and it went back in the oven) Chapma...
https://www.barfblog.com/2020/11/stick-it-in-thermometers-work-but-people-dont-want-to-use-them/
My partner and American/Australian daughter have taken to watching reruns of the television show, Glee, during or after dinner. Who knew there would ever be a food safety connection? Turns out 32...
Twenty years ago, I sent one of my students to a big organic conference in Guelph, and requested that she ask one question: How do you know compost is microbiologically safe? The answer was not c...
https://www.barfblog.com/2020/05/compost-sounds-cool-but-is-it-food-safety-safe/
The New York Times followed up on the chicken study and how to tell if it’s done that I wrote about last week with a meandering story about color, texture, and stupidly recommends using pop-up ...
About one third of foodborne illness outbreaks in Europe are acquired in the home and eating undercooked poultry is among consumption practices associated with illness. The aim of this study was ...
https://www.barfblog.com/2020/05/you-think-that-chicken-is-done-its-not-done-or-its-burnt/
Despite a sizeable evidence base for the risk of campylobacteriosis associated with eating chicken liver pâté, associated outbreaks continue to occur. In January 2017, six cases of campylobacte...
https://www.barfblog.com/2020/03/campy-linked-to-poultry-liver-pate/
Jose Bolanos of the UK Food Standards Agency writes in Organizations, culture and food safety, 2020that FSA has a longstanding interest in organisational culture and its impact on the capability ...
I used to use these semi-disposable thermometers in my old-school fridge, but when we bought our Brisbane house we bought a new fridge which displays the fridge and freezer temps continuously (al...
https://www.barfblog.com/2020/01/what-is-the-temperature-of-your-fridge/