TULSA: Conferees get taste of food safety trends - (Tulsa World)
September 14, 2007 – 6:24 pmOklahoma City — Food safety experts from across the country participating in the first annual Food Industry Trends Conference at the Embassy Suites Hotel were cited as saying yesterday that foodborne illnesses kill close to 5,000 people annually in this country, but the dangers of salmonella, E.coli and other diseases get scant public attention except in rare cases.
The most effective fight against microbial pathogens are safe factory practices and simple, personal measures like cooking food thoroughly and washing hands, conference speakers noted. Yet a lack of information occasionally leads to outbreaks that prove fatal.
Kansas State University professor Douglas Powell was quoted as saying, “You’ve still got people out there who have no clue. It’s mind-numbing.” (referring to the butcher using the same vac-pac for raw and cooked product which led to the death of 5-year-old Mason Jones in Wales — dp; http://barfblog.foodsafety.ksu.edu/2007/09/articles/e-coli/outrage/).
Armia Tawadrous, a regulatory executive for the Food Safety […]
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