Posts in Food Safety
Summer Food Safety

’m writing this on a cold, rainy, gray day with an equally dismal forecast for the Memorial Day weekend.  This weekend is usually the start of outdoor eating season.  If you’re lucky, it already is where you are.  Maybe you’re planning a picnic or you’re taking some food to a barbecue. Perhaps you’re packing snacks…

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Attack of the Flu

I think I've finally recovered from my third stomach flu in as many weeks.  I suspect that my most recent episode was a norovirus or Norwalk family of viruses.  According to my old microbiology texts, these single-stranded RNA viruses have a 1- to 2-day incubation period (multiplying inside your body but not yet causing symptoms),…

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