BARFBLOG: Do ‘Employees Must Wash Hands’ signs keep the piss out of happy meals? - (barfblog)
February 25, 2008 – 8:20 pmhttp://barfblog.foodsafety.ksu.edu/2008/02/articles/handwashing/do-employees-must-wash-hands-signs-keep-the-piss-out-of-happy-meals/index.html
Jon Stewart did an admirable job hosting the Oscar’s last night, although he’s better on The Daily Show.
One of his best lines, however, comes from a 2002 hosting gig on Saturday Night Live, where he said,
If you think the 10 commandments being posted in a school is going to change behavior of children, then you think Employees Must Wash Hands is keeping the piss out of your happy meals. It’s not.
That came to mind as I read Friday’s N.Y. Times blog entry about handwashing and the lack of soap at Socialista where some celebrities now are being encouraged to keep hepatitis A shots.
http://barfblog.foodsafety.ksu.edu/2008/02/articles/hepatitis-a/fancy-food-doesnt-mean-safe-food-socialista-edition/
http://cityroom.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/02/22/lather-up-the-hand-wringing-over-hand-washing/
Jennifer Lee writes that Employees Must Wash Hands Before Returning to Work, signs are required by the city health code in all bathrooms in restaurants and bars. Sometimes the signs are in Spanish and Chinese, as well as English.
The Health Department issued a Hepatitis A warning on Thursday […]
MORE:
http://www.extension.iastate.edu/foodsafety/news/fsnews.cfm?newsid=24508
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