Many consumers feel that using a thermometer to check cooking temps will diminish the opinions others have on their cooking skills. Home cooks take the stance they have never acquired a foodborne illness at home and that it will never happen to them. Consumers give themselves high passing grades for their own food preparation skills [...]
Studies have cited that the kitchen is more heavily contaminated with fecal bacteria than bathrooms. Food in the refrigerator that is packed too tightly, restricting air circulation, prohibits proper food temperatures. Microwave ovens are another site of cross contamination risk due to consumers not cleaning regularly. Young children, the elderly, the immunocompromised and pregnant women [...]
Dispensing Freezers, also known as soft serve machines, dish out over 188,000 jobs across the United States annually. An OSHA violation carries a max penalty of seven thousand dollars. The real damage to a fast food establishment is it's reputation. Work place hazards related to manually cleaning dispensing freezers may include; handling sharp hardware, repetitious [...]
