New International Food Safety Network Infosheet -- Keep dangerous E. coli off the plate
Posted: January 3rd, 2008 - 10:51am by Ben Chapman
This weeks infosheets is focused on E. coli O157 and the scary results of the illness. All within a couple of days this week we saw stories about 20-year-old Stephanie Smith of Cold Spring, MN coming out of a coma; 5-year-old Aubrey Anderson of Sterling, KS, recovering from a 5 week stay in hospital; and 2-year-old Isabell Addeo of Calgary, Alberta's kidney failures -- all E. coli O157-linked. E. coli O157 can be a nasty bug and these stories are examples that we think are important to expose food handlers to.
You can download the infosheet here.
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Dr. Ben Chapman is an assistant professor and food safety extension specialist at North Carolina State University. He's interested in learning from and sharing stories from outbreaks. Through using new methods and messages, Ben hopes to compel folks from farm-to-fork to change food safety behavior and create a culture of food safety.
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