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Source contamination is any type of contamination that occurs before the food enters your establishment. The most important thing you can do to prevent source contamination is to purchase your food from approved suppliers. Download Image: Approved Suppliers Cartoon

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 […]

If you haven’t heard yet, I’ll tell you now: money is dirty. As said so well by NPR’s Michaeleen Doucleff, “Your wallet is a portable petri dish.” And it’s true: in 2002, the Southern Medical Journal completed a study testing the filth of money and found that 94% of the bills that were tested harbored […]

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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 […]