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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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No title (id: 12923)
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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Stamford (Conn.) Advocate reveals that a local cemetary had acted improperly in several ways, mislocating bodies, overcharging for veterans' markers and burying bodies in a way that violated health codes all because it had run out of room but continued to hold internments; the series prompted a state investigation, August - December 1993.
Tags: CT Carella 24 pages
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WFAA-TV (Dallas) finds hundreds of Dallas restaurants with health code violations, in part because county fails to inspect, November 1982.
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Los Angeles Herald Examiner series examines use of illegal immigrants in California's garment industry and the labor and health code violations they face, January 1981.
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