Another city, San Angelo, TX, may be moving to the letter grading system that has become so popular lately. San Angelo Live reported that they are looking at moving from the current demerit system to the letter grade instead in order to make it easier for consumers to understand. The letter grading system requires establishments …
Food Safety
Secrets to Self Inspection by Sysco – Part II
Here is part two of the Sysco article from yesterday around implementing a self inspection model. Click here to check out part one. This part of the article highlights the idea of using local resources that are available to you through your local health departments. For example: Florida’s Department of Business and Professional Regulation, for …
Secrets to Self Inspection by Sysco
Today we are going to highlight part one of a two part article by Sysco on Self Inspections. We at OpsAnalitica of course believe in and preach the self inspection model. It just makes sense to inspect daily for a number of reasons: You need to be ready every day for the health inspector to …
Dozens sickened at banquet
So probably not the best banquet to have a foodborne illness outbreak at considering the attendees. With 100 of the 250 attendees being lawyers and law students this is not going to go away anytime soon. This article from Philly.com will be forever and will pop up decades from now if you Google search “foodborne illness …
FDA: 3 People Die from Foodborne Illness Linked to Ice Cream
Blue Bell Creamery is being tied to a listeria outbreak. 5 people in Wichita were hospitalized, 3 of them wound up dying due to the foodborne illness. Blue Bell has stopped production and distribution of the products linked to the illness. They say it’s related to one piece of equipment in one production plant. The …
Feds roll out new way to analyze food outbreak data
Interesting article from the University of Minnesota Center for Infectious Disease Research and Policy about the US Government improving methods for sifting through data to estimate which foods are contributing to outbreaks. They focused the report on the four main outbreaks: Salmonella, Escherichia coli O157, Listeria monocytogenes, and Campylobacter. It’s great that the government is focusing on …
First Watch Restaurant Shut Down for Live Insects
Here is another example of one bad actor running unsafe operations bringing unwanted media attention to the whole chain. Click here to watch the news report This is a trend, local news stations are trying to own food safety. In Denver, it is Fox 31; this story is by an ABC affiliate in Tampa. The …
Health Department Investigating Illnesses At Opryland Hotel
This article, Health Department Investigating Illness at Opryland Hotel, illustrates one of our key beliefs at OpsAnalitica. In today’s connected world, a news story like this can reach a national audience in minutes. I live in Colorado, and this article was sent to me by a friend. The title of this article is meant to …