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Search results for "Food handling" ...
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Danger on Your Plate
The Center for Investigative Reporting hired the food analysis lab of the Sarajevo Veterinary School to test food samples purchased in farmers' markets, food shops and stalls to determine food safety. Center reporters found problems with contamination, government inspection, labeling, waste, and NGO's that collect money but "really do little to guard consumers against bad food."
Tags: food safety; Mad Cow Disease; CIN; Linking Agricultural Markets to Producers; LAMP; E.coli; proteus; alfotoxins; bacteria; fungi; food handling; TRACES animal tracking; smuggling; World Health Organization; Ministry of Foreign Trade and Economic Relations; EU
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ImClone Systems
An investigation by The Street.com revealed questions over ImClone Systems handling of its drug Erbitux, long before an early morning raid in June 2002 that ended with the company's CEO, Sam Waksal, handcuffed by police. In late 2001, The Street.com reported on a sweetheart loan that went to Waksal during negotiations with Bristol-Myers. It also reported that something was amiss with the Erbitux application two weeks before the Food and Drug Administration rejected the application. Throughout 2002, while others focused on the insider trading scandal involving Waksal and Martha Stewart, The Street.com remained focused on ImClone and "the trouble it was having getting Erbitux back on track.
Tags: ImClone Systems; Sam Waksal; insider trading; biotech; financial; Food and Drug Administration; Erbitux; online; CD
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Some Airlines Mishandle Food, Sewage Disposal
"Some of the country's biggest airlines and in-flight caterers have violated federal health regulations of food storage and sewage handling, according to U.S. Food and Drug Administration records. So far this year, the agency has sent six 'warning letters' about violations to carriers including Northwest Airlines, Delta Air Lines, AMR Corp.'s American Airlines and Continental Airlines - twice the number send during the same period in 1997." Trains and buses are also discussed.
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Trouble simmers in chefs' kitchens: Restaurant inspection standards fall short
The Star-Ledger found that "state regulations designed to protect consumers from food-borne illness fall far short of federal standards -- and enforcement of these regulations is inconsistent at best. Problems with food, which cause about 2 million sicknesses in New Jersey each year, are not limited to greasy spoons or obscure delis, either. Sanitary inspection reports for some of the state's best restaurants contain numerous examples of practices that could make customers sick."
Tags: restaurant inspection; food safety; public health; health departments; sanitary code; food handling
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The Mission
WLS-TV examines the Chicago Mission after an ABC 7 co-worker tried to contact the mission after receiving a contribution solicitation. The station "FOIA'd City Mission Network International's six month budgets filing from the Illinois and California Attorneys General and examined lawsuits filed in Cook County, Illinois and Los Angeles County, California. ... ABC 7's investigative producer volunteered to serve the holiday meal to the hungry at the Chicago City Mission to see how the dinner was handled, witness the amount of food bought and to meet members."
Tags: TAPE; TRANSCRIPT; church; charities; Chicago Mission
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Lackmann sustains questionable food safety standards
"Lackmann Culinary Services, Hofstra University's food supplier maintains nine eating facilities on campus that were found to have a variety of unsanitary and harmful food handling and preparation practices even Lackmann corporate officials admitted could be endangering the health of patrons."
Tags: food safety; sanitation; garbage; pathogen bacteria; chicken salad; Nassau County Board of Health
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Enforcement Lacking for Problem Restaurants
A News-Journal investigation found that the Florida state government has been unable to force a "persistent minority of Volusia and Flagler county restaurants where state inspectors have documented chronically poor sanitation and food handling" to clean up their kitchens. The investigation revealed that Florida "lacks a system for tracking repeat violations" and rarely fines restaurants repeatedly cited for poor food handling practices.
Tags: Food handling; sanitation; Florida; regulation; restaurants
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"Scary record: food handling at Dome"
When Adrienne Haynes and a friend worked their first night cooking hot dogs at a Kingdome concession stand, they witnessing some sickening procedures: a plastic shovel used alternately as a dustpan and an ice scoop for soft drinks; hot dog buns picked free of mold, then served; a man with dirt-encrusted hands filling popcorn boxes next to a woman sneezing and coughing over food. Haynes and her friend quit that day, then promptly reported the company to the health department. But to the Seattle-King County Health Department officials, it was just another complaint to add to a long list of chronic city-health-code vilations at dozens of Kingdome concession stands.
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ABC employees went undercover wearing hidden cameras to work in fast food chain franchises with a long history of failing health inspections for serious health violations--the kind that can lead to food borne illness. ABC documented a lack of training in safe food handling and preparation, widespread ignorance of the sanitary code, routine health violations and lack of management oversight. (Sept. 27, 1995)
Tags: Sawyer Sorkowitz Behind the counter Contest entry Food poisoning Health department 16 pgs.
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American Journal conducted a nationwide investigation taking a behind the scenes look at the sanitation and safety of the nation's school lunch programs. In major cities, rat-infested stockrooms, roach-filled kitchens, outdated food, and cases of improper, and potentially dangerous, food handling practices by cafeteria workers were exposed. (Nov. 27, 1995)
Tags: Gilmartin Livingstone Arango School lunches Contest entry Children 8 pgs.