Good Hand Hygiene: A Simple Way to Protect Yourself and Others from Foodborne Illness + More
Good Hand Hygiene: A Simple Way to Protect Yourself and Others from Foodborne Illness + More Share on facebook Share on twitter Share on linkedin Share on email Dear Fellow Food Safety Warrior, We know what you’re thinking! You’ve heard all the hand washing mantras thousands of times before: Wash your hands after using the […]
Spend a Moment With Amanda
Spend a Moment with Amanda Amanda talks about life after Noah’s Salmonella illness What do you remember most about your illness? Thankfully little Noah does not remember his time in the hospital or his surgery. As for the rest of our family, we will never forget the pain and uncertainty we felt when we almost […]
Stop Foodborne Illness and CSPI Call for Modernization of USDA’s Poultry Safety Framework
Share on facebook Share on twitter Share on linkedin Share on whatsapp STOP and CSPI Call for Modernization of USDA’s Poultry Safety Framework Stop Foodborne Illness and the Center for Science in the Public Interest (CSPI) are calling for important changes at the U.S. Department of Agriculture to reduce consistently high burdens of foodborne illness […]
Spend a Moment with Ines
Spend a Moment with Ines Ines talks about her experience having schistosomiasis What do you remember most about your illness? I remember feeling not heard. I went to about 12 infectious disease doctors and I kept telling them I had fevers and felt like things were biting me under my skin. The doctors kept telling […]
How to Protect Yourself Against Norovirus So You Don’t Get Sick
How to Protect Yourself Against Norovirus So You Don’t Get Sick Share on facebook Share on twitter Share on linkedin Share on email Noroviruses, a group of viruses that cause inflammation of the stomach and large intestine, are the leading cause of gastroenteritis (stomach flu) and foodborne disease outbreaks in the U.S. The Centers for […]
Getting to Know Mitzi Baum: She’s Putting Heart and Soul Into Everything We Do
Getting to Know Mitzi Baum: She’s Putting Heart and Soul Into Everything We Do Share on facebook Share on twitter Share on linkedin Share on email Dynamic, experienced, focused, and filled with passion for helping the people served by Stop Foodborne Illness—these qualities describe our remarkable new CEO, Mitzi Baum. In May 2019, Mitzi took […]
Part Two: Designing Food Manufacturing Facilities with Food Safety Standards Front and Center
Designing Food Manufacturing Facilities with Food Safety Standards Front and Center Cutting-edge thoughts from Dr. Randy Huffman at Maple Leaf Foods As we spotlighted in Part One of this series, food manufacturing leaders have their feet to the fire these days when it comes to implementing the most up-to-date best practices for facility design that […]
Part One: Designing Food Manufacturing Facilities with Food Safety Standards Front and Center
Share on facebook Share on twitter Share on linkedin Share on whatsapp Part One: Designing Food Manufacturing Facilities with Food Safety Standards Front and Center For most of us, when we think of food safety, we think of certain behaviors we need to be diligent about—things like keeping food at a safe temperature, washing our […]
Thank You Emily, STOP’s First Dave Theno Food Safety Fellow
Thank you Emily, STOP’s First Dave Theno Food Safety Fellow Share on facebook Share on twitter Share on linkedin Share on email Dynamic, intelligent, and passionate with a heart that beats to help people prevent foodborne illness—this describes the inaugural recipient of our Dave Theno Food Safety Fellowship, Ms. Emily Forauer, to a “T!” Have […]
Coping with a Foodborne Illness? Our Peer-to-Peer Mentors Can Help
Share on facebook Share on twitter Share on linkedin Share on whatsapp Coping with a Foodborne Illness? Our Peer-to-Peer Mentors Can Help. One thing we often hear at Stop Foodborne Illness is how stressful it is to deal with the avalanche of life challenges that befall people who are suffering from a foodborne illness experience. […]
Spend a Moment with Anne
Spend a Moment with Anne Anne talks about life since her E. coli illness What do you remember most about your illness? I remember my entire experience very clearly, but my memories are primarily based on my hallucinations. By the time I was checked into the hospital with extreme flu-like symptoms, toxins had already reached […]
Spend a Moment With Joe
Spend a Moment with Joe Joe talks about life since his E. coli illness What do you remember most about your illness? What I remember most about my brush with E. coli was the pain, because I have never felt something like that before or since my bout with foodborne illness. I often describe the […]
