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Food safety quick hits
KETV in Omaha is reporting that Girl Scout cookies are safe to eat — the peanut butter products that are used to make them are not produced by Peanut Corp of America: The peanut butter supplier...
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Microwaving listeria out of potatoes
Minnesota-based food maker Northern Star is recalling several different refrigerated potato products after some samples were found to have Listeria monocytogenes. According to WCCO-TV, a former...
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Watch where you’re sticking it in
I’ve loved Chicken with Broccoli and Cheese (of various brands) since childhood. These prepared-but-raw entrees mostly fell by the wayside when I started cooking like a grown-up. But just last week,...
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Gratuitous food porn shot of the day – Steamfresh corn on the cob
Sorenne eating lunch with dad, 11:00 a.m., Nov. 18, 2009. Kids love corn on the cob. Me too. Bit it’s difficult to find in mid-November. In Manhattan (Kansas). SO I tried out the Steamfresh frozen corn...
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Fewer food violations in school cafeterias
Cafeteria food inspections tend to have fewer critical violations than let’s say your full scale service restaurant due to minimal food preparation involved. Everything is essentially pre-packaged...
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Bon Appetit and simplistic food safety
Bon Appetit is a food porn magazine meant to titillate (it’s even in it’s name) and stimulate rather than inform, like most of what passes for food journalism. This month, the so-called Conscious Cook...
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Tongue-testing dangerous: microwaves that heat unevenly can pose food safety...
I expect companies like ConAgra and government agencies like the department of agriculture to blame consumers when their 50 cent pot pies make hundreds of people barf – just follow the instructions. I...
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A Canadian Thanksgiving in Australia
Thanksgiving is my favorite holiday because it’s largely non-denominational and celebrates the harvest. I like that. So does Amy. She even feathered her hair 1978-Farrah-style for the occasion. We also...
View ArticleMakes me look like a joke; Snoop Dogg ain’t no Neil Young, flogs Hot Pockets
I don’t get the whole Snoop Dogg Snoop Lion thing, but I guess everyone’s gotta pay the bills. The rapper formerly known as Snoop Dogg who has now found Rastafarianism in Jamaica, is flogging Hot...
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‘E. coli festering in the microwave’ surprise for four beer and chips-loving...
Conor, Padraig, Brian and Paddy are students at Athlone Institute of Technology, and have been supplementing their studies with a diet of beer and chips while dangerous E. coli festers in their...
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Microwave food safety
Ellie Krieger of the Washington Post asks, How safe is your microwave? She touches on radiation, BPA and nutrition. But misses the microbial food safety component: uneven heating can lead to food...
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Campylobacter: UK pensioner died from undercooked chicken kiev
Microwaves are great for reheating but lousy for cooking because the heat is erratically dispersed throughout an uncooked, frozen meal like a chicken kiev. That’s why U.S. producers are required to...
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Cooking instructions on Aussie meat pie suck
Sometimes, I go for comfort food. Occasionally, when the women are at their respective schools and there’s a National Hockey League final game on (at 10:20 a.m here) I’ll indulge in a frozen meat pie –...
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Should peanut butter be microwaved to control Salmonella: Maybe?
This study evaluated the efficacy of a 915 MHz microwave with 3 different levels to inactivate 3 serovars of Salmonella in peanut butter. Peanut butter inoculated with Salmonella enterica serovar...
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Great for reheating, lousy for cooking: How food service uses microwaves in...
Uneven cooking due to consumer use of microwave ovens to cook food products that have been prepared but are not ready to eat has been a documented risk factor in several foodborne disease outbreaks....
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7 sick: Outbreak of Salmonella infections linked to raw frozen breaded...
The Public Health Agency of Canada is collaborating with lotsa other bureau-types to investigate an outbreak of Salmonella Enteritidis infections in four provinces with cases of human illness linked to...
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What to do with the sponge
The kitchen sponge has been gaining a lot of traction lately in food safety media that stemmed from the recent German study that analyzed 14 sponges. Don Schaffner provided his expertise regarding the...
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