Remember the “Shigella Fella!”

I am quoting myself, repeating what I have said literally 1,000 times. Every ServSafe class, every new hire orientation, and anytime I explain the “Big Six Pathogens” I refer to the “Shigella fella”. This is a reminder that Shigella species come directly...

World Food Safety Day

June 7, 2024, is World Food Safety Day. We focus every day on keeping our own food safe. The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) and the World Health Organization (WHO) report estimated statistics that globally there are over 600 million...

News & Stories

News & Stories News & Stories Mar 23, 2024read more “Any Port in a Storm” Mar 23, 2024This guiding principle from the nautical world has an interesting application to food safety if we are allowed to take a little license with its use. “Any port...

“Any Port in a Storm”

This guiding principle from the nautical world has an interesting application to food safety if we are allowed to take a little license with its use. “Any port in a storm” is another way of saying you are looking for a safe harbor. You want a place to dock that will...