StateFoodSafety Resources

According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, well over 500,000 Americans work in food preparation with duties other than cooking. Specifically, this half-million population group prepares cold foods and slices meat— they’re deli workers. There is no real shortage of deli workers across the United States, but there is a perceived flood in this market […]

The United States’ issues with obesity and healthy eating are well-documented, but health advocates and national policy makers still struggle to identify not only the problem’s solution, but also its many possible sources. According to Joe Heim of The Washington Post, candy may be the next suspect in the nation’s hunt for the causes of […]

Forty percent of food produced in the United States ends up cramming our landfills. Much of that waste—about sixty percent—is generated by restaurants and other businesses, but consumers also play a significant role in contributing to food waste. So what can we do to reduce the amount of food we throw out? In an attempt […]

In September, Michael Norman, resident of Milton, Washington, swallowed two wire brush bristles while eating a slice of Domino’s Pizza. His wife had picked up the pizza at a Domino’s Pizza near their home in Milton, Washington earlier that day. The wire bristles in Michael’s pizza were a physical contaminant that came from a wire […]

Depending on where you live, your grocery store item labels might start looking a little different. Yesterday, voters in Oregon were given the opportunity to vote on a measure that would directly affect the way foods are labeled in their grocery stores. Voters in Colorado were given a similar proposition. Oregon narrowly failed in its […]