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Food Poisoning on the Menu at the World’s Top Restaurant

Just because a restaurant is expensive or highly rated doesn’t mean it’s immune to food safety and hygiene breaches as incident with popular Danish restaurant, Noma recently proved. The best restaurant in the world for 3 successive years was the source of

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Beware Drug Resistant Shigella

Workers in the food service industry need to undergo Food Handling and Safety training in order to learn the techniques to preparing and serving food in a manner that is hygienic and safe for customers. We often hear of restaurants

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Danger of Excessive Fast Food Consumption

An article written by Mike Stewart on the website www.foodsafety.com.au poses an interesting question to Australians about whether fast food like other vices such as alcohol and cigarettes should be regulated. According to the Cancer Council of Australia the consumption

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Importance of Proper Handwashing for Food Prep Workers

Our hands are an important tool and are what differentiate us from the animals. Our hands have the ability to create and destroy, nowhere is this fact as apparent as it is in the food service industry. Clean hands are

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Kelloggs Glass Scare – Recall Special K

Imagine opening a box of your favourite cereal in the morning only to discover a shard of glass or worse to take a bite and cut your tongue on a broken piece of glass? Well Kellogg Co. K.N had to

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Council Receives 148 Food Safety Complaints in a Year

A shocking revelation that 148 food safety complaints have been reported to the Sutherland Shire County regarding cafes, restaurants and other businesses resulted in only 6 fines. Another 50 businesses had to undergo on-going monitoring and intervention while 12 improvement

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Food Handling Safety News: Do I have Food Poisoning or The Flu – Learning to tell the difference!

Food poisoning is something that most people experience at some time or the other in their lives and can manifest itself with some nasty symptoms such as nausea, vomiting and fatigue. However sometimes the symptoms you experience can be similar

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Food Safety News: Beware When Drinking Raw Milk

Raw milk is milk from cows, sheep, or goats that has not been pasteurized to kill harmful bacteria. This raw, unpasteurized milk can carry dangerous bacteria such as Salmonella, E. coli, and Listeria, which are responsible for causing numerous foodborne

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Cases of Norovirus Spread

The American CDC warned consumers of the latest foods and places to avoid or approach cautiously in order to avoid catching the outbreak of Norovirus that seems to be going around. Although it is particularly prevalent in the winter months,

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Article Posts for Week Ending December 21,2012

Here is a list of the articles posted on our blog this last week: Minced Meat – A common source of Food Poisoning  

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