Jul 31, 2015, 3:23 AM
Summer months typically see a rise in reports of foodborne illness. With one in every six Americans getting sick from food poisoning every year and 128,000 estimated annual hospitalizations from foodborne illnesses, make sure you are taking all of the necessary steps to stay healthy and enjoy your summer.
Oct 10, 2013, 3:18 AM
Application Programing Interface (API) is a set of routines, protocols and tools for building software applications. An API is a software-to-software interface. APIs allow applications to communicate with each other without the end user even realizing that there were separate applications communicating. The end user only sees the one interface and doesn’t even know when one application sends information to another application.
Jul 26, 2013, 3:16 AM
All food service operations must develop a food safety program. A HACCP requirement for developing a comprehensive program includes developing, documenting, and implementing Standard Operating Procedures (SOP).
Jul 5, 2013, 3:13 AM
A good temperature monitoring system is vital to any school foodservice department. The most important temperatures to monitor include walk-in coolers/freezers, reach-in refrigerators/freezers, milk coolers, holding units, and final rinse temperatures of dish machines. Additionally, food temperature data must be monitored: from receiving, to storage, to holding temperatures, to cooking temperatures.
Jun 17, 2013, 3:07 AM
With flu season among us, the storage and handling of vaccines is a very important subject. Mishandling of vaccines by storing them outside the CDC recommended temperature ranges can reduce the potency of the vaccine, and potentially not provide adequate protection against the disease.
May 28, 2013, 2:59 AM
Proper nutrition is important for both adults and children. The USDA has a great website for information on all aspects of food nutrition. The website is aptly called http://www.choosemyplate.gov/. The website helps individuals make informed decisions regarding their eating habits. Many child nutrition departments at schools have adopted this website and use the literature on their district websites and in the school cafeterias.
May 10, 2013, 2:55 AM
As part of the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) Modernization Act in 2003, 21 CFR Part 11 was created as a criteria under which FDA considers electronic records to be trustworthy, reliable, and equivalent to paper records and handwritten signatures.
May 1, 2013, 2:51 AM
Laboratory conditions call for very precise temperatures. For this reason, a finely tuned temperature monitoring system is one of the most important tools for a lab. A failure at a lab can often mean that life-saving vaccines get compromised or years of research get destroyed. Unlike other industries, you can’t often put a price-tag on a failure at a lab.
Mar 5, 2013, 2:49 AM
The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) is one of the oldest physical science laboratories in the nation. It was established in 1901 and is now part of the U.S. Department of Commerce. NIST is responsible for developing and maintaining many standards, including the U.S. national standards for temperature. They have designed a system of calibrating thermometers and temperature probes, so that they are “traceable” back to NIST.
Feb 22, 2013, 2:45 AM
With so many different requirements that must be followed with regards to temperature monitoring, including HACCP requirements, The Joint Commission, and AABB, people are investing in automated temperature monitoring systems. Done are the days of manually taking temperature readings, writing the results on a piece of paper, and filing that paper away in a filing cabinet for years. Today, there are systems that allow you to monitor your entire operation at any time and from anywhere in the world.
