BARFBLOG: Can TV cooks become food safety celebrities? or Have you spotted Doug Powell ranting? - (barfblog)
June 6, 2008 – 5:32 pm“If you read Doug Powells FSnet e-mail news, you have probably spotted some of his rants against unsafe techniques demonstrated on television cooking shows.”
So says Gary Acuff, president of the International Association for Food Protection in his June 2008 column about the poor food safety practices of celebrity chefs.
http://www.foodprotection.org/publications/PresidentArchive/2008%20Columns/June2008.htm
My rants are based on research, reviewed and published in Food Protection Trends, a monthly journal of
the International Association for Food Protection.
In 2004, my laboratory reported that, based on 60 hours of detailed viewing of television cooking shows, an unsafe food handling practice occurred about every four minutes, and that for every safe food handling practice observed, we observed 13 unsafe practices. The most common errors were inadequate hand washing and cross-contamination between raw and ready-to-eat foods. The abstract is below and available at:
http://www.foodsafety.ksu.edu/en/article-details.php?a=3&c=14&sc=102&id=842
To answer Gary’s question, is there something that can be done? After completing the initial research in […]
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