Number	17218
Subject	Food
Source	Pioneer Press (St. Paul
State	MN
Year	2000
Publication Date	October 22-26
Summary	Pioneer Press reporters found "from 1995-1999 restaurants violated food-safety regulations at least 130,000 times." Violations included unsafe food temperatures, cross-contamination risks, poor employee hygiene and insects/vermin in storage areas. Their investigation discovered that top health officials had given restaurants second, third and fouth chances before issuing penalities and were making deals to keep problems quiet. Above all, consumers were the last to know about code violations until food poisioning had struck.
Category	Contest Entry
Pages	70
Keywords	State Department of Health;contamination;food poisioning
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