Friday, June 7th is World Food Safety Day! How Will You Celebrate?

 World Food Safety Day is here, and right now, you are thinking about how you will celebrate this awesome day.

Of course here at Penn Safety Food Safety, every day is food safety day.  We don't need some stinkin' calendar guy to come up with a special holiday for food safety.  I know our food safety news patrons wake up each day thinking about food safety, probably because they had some nightmare involving some food safety catastrophe.  Food safety paranoia is what sets us apart and it will be what eventually drives us mad. 

And why June 7th?  Was there some famous food safety person born on June 7th?  Well if there was some famous person, I could not find them in the 5 minutes I took to browse through some internet site for famous people born on June 7th.  But you know who was born on June 7th.  Liam Neeson.  Damn straight.  And what would Liam Neeson say in his food safety movie?

Leaning into the wait person, and speaking in a low, assertive voice, “I don't know who you are. I don't know who your chef is.  But what I do have are a very particular set of food safety skills, skills I have acquired over way too long of a career.  Food Safety skills that make me a nightmare for people like you and your establishment. If you cook my burger correctly, that'll be the end of it. I will eat it, I will not bother you, but if you don't, I will look for you, I will find you and I will have you recook it."

How many of you have sent your food back to have it properly cooked?  With a serious attitude like that, I think it is time to kick up our food safety skills and get serious.

How about a new food thermometer?  Not one of those stinkin' bimetallic cheapies with slow response time where you have to stick the darn thing up to the dimple point (and why is that dimple point so far back on the stem anyway?).   No, you will get some high tech, state of the art, remote digital piece that costs more than your grill.  Check this on out.

CHEF iQ Sense Smart Wireless Meat Thermometer with 2 Ultra-Thin Probes, Unlimited Range Bluetooth Meat Thermometer, Digital Food Thermometer for Remote Monitoring of BBQ Grill, Oven....$126 on Amazon.  

These look like missiles that you can launch into your prey and then leave them there to measure the temperature as you cook it.  And of course, it is all controlled by your cellphone.

Eating out?  Another way to celebrate is to order food that is normally served raw or rare, but have the chef cook it...way past well done.  Ahi tuna...canned.   A filet mignon...braised to 180F.  Oysters on the half-shell..boiled.   No better way to send the chef a message that today, you stand for food safety.

You can spend the day cleaning AND sanitizing every pot, pan, and utensil in your entire kitchen.  Put on some Bach on Pandora radio and then clean until your hands are shriveled like prunes.  Then sanitize everything with the fresh sanitizer solution.  Really kill it by using 400ppm to 500 ppm and then of course following it with a rinse.  No better smell than that of an indoor pool.

How will you celebrate?

Happy World Food Safety Day!

https://www.fda.gov/food/consumers/world-food-safety-day
World Food Safety Day

World Food Safety Day is June 7. The United Nations’ Food and Agriculture Organization and World Health Organization which sponsor World Food Safety Day have designated “Food Safety: Prepare for the Unexpected” as the theme for 2024. The purpose of this year’s theme is to draw attention to sudden food safety incidents and underline the importance of being prepared for such incidents, no matter how severe they may be.

Food safety incidents are situations where there is a potential or confirmed health risk associated with food consumption. A food incident can happen, for example, due to accidental contamination, inadequate food processing controls, extreme weather events, or natural disasters. While being ready to manage food safety incidents requires dedicated efforts from policymakers, food safety authorities, farmers and food business operators, consumers also have an active role to play.




Preventing Foodborne Illness

Join FDA on World Food Safety Day as we spread the word about ways to reduce the risks of foodborne illness, also called food poisoning.

Protecting Food and Water During Natural Disasters

With the increasing frequency, intensity and extent of weather events or natural disasters that cause power outages, floods, and disrupt local travel for food shopping and deliveries, it’s vital that consumers know how to protect food and water during hurricanes and other storms. It’s equally important that households assemble emergency food supplies that don’t require refrigeration or cooking to be safe. Check out the Department of Homeland Security’s Emergency Supply List.
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Or go to FoodSafety.gov which provides food safety and food recall information from both FDA and the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA), which regulates most meat and poultry.

Join FDA on World Food Safety Day as we spread the word about ways to prepare for threats to your food safety.





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FDA is looking to the future of food safety once again and taking steps to usher the United States into a new era of smarter food safety.

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