Food Safety: In the trenches - (RFF Retailer)
January 31, 2008 – 7:42 pmHeres how one leading-edge independent makes it happen.
One June morning, Rosemary Fifield received an alarming call from a refrigerated food supplier: Listeria monocytogenes had been discovered in some product, and all packages had to be pulled off the shelves. Now.
Fifield, then a staff member of the education department at the Hanover Food Co-op in Hanover, N.H., knew how nasty this bug could be. Trained as a microbiologist and having worked in hospitals for several years, she was well aware that Listeria can cause spontaneous abortions and threaten the lives of people who are immunosuppressed.
As product was being removed from display cases and the back room, she huddled with her boss. They decided to ask their IT director if the POS system could identify which customers had purchased the specific product. The 18,000 members who shopped the retailers three locations at the time gave out their member numbers at the […]
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