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  • Nosestretcher alert: CBC (that’s in Canada) sucks at food safety info

    Posted: October 21st, 2010 - 9:59pm by Doug Powell

    I was on a trip with some Kansas Staters earlier this week, and at a dinner, one of them started talking about a report he’d heard on NPR (National Public Radio) earlier that week.

    I said, “State-sponsored jazz.”

    He looked at me like I was special, because, how hard is it to repeat lines from the Colbert Report.

    Satire, like the Intertubes, is lost on some people.

    The Vancouver television section of the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (CBC) ran a bunch of food safety stories in the run-up to Canadian Thanksgiving on Oct. 11, 2010. An astute reader e-mailed me to say, “You may want to check out their ‘food-safety facts.’” I have no idea where these alleged facts came from, but the BS highlights include:

    2. "Pot luck meals are responsible for a large amount of food poisonings. They are usually caused by poor food temperature controls in egg or meat products."

    4. "Harmful bacteria does not stop multiplying unless refrigerated below 5 degrees. However, most refrigerators are not capable of this temperature."

    7. "Do not eat foods directly from a jar or can. Saliva can contaminate the contents inside."

    8. "Peanut butter needs to be stored in a refrigerator after opening to prevent the fats from going rancid.”

    None of these facts are substantiated, and there is plenty of available evidence to counter these claims. As the reader points out, nothing is mentioned about cross-contamination or handwashing.

    Hate is a strong word, but I hate jazz. Especially state-sponsored jazz. And terrible taxpayer-funded news.
     

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  • More mice, now in a Toronto pastry tray

    Posted: December 27th, 2009 - 9:17am by Doug Powell

    Here’s one from east-end Toronto that I missed last week but Coldmud picked up from the CBC (Canadian Broadcasting Corporation – hockey and state-sponsored jazz).

    Amateur photographer Borys Machinkowski's photo (right, exactly as shown) shows a mouse popping out of a space between two trays of pastries sitting in the display case of Bakery On the Go at the Warden Toronto

    Machinkowski. a 20-year-old Centennial College student, said in a blog post that he noticed the rodent while he and some friends were sitting in the coffee shop waiting for another friend to arrive.

    Machinkowski said he pointed out the mouse to the employee working at the coffee shop, but the employee continued to sell food.

    Machinkowski and his friends started telling customers about the mouse and showing them the photo they had taken.

    "Being thoroughly disgusted, we decided to warn everyone who would listen that we just saw a mouse in plain sight and showed them the picture each time. They were grateful they hadn't eaten what they had bought yet."

    Their warnings stopped after a man arrived, and he turned out to be the eatery's manager.

    "Finally, another man came in and we continued our mission to warn people. We told him about the mouse and he said, 'Huh? This is subway station. You see mice sometime. So what?' in an irritated tone. Then we showed him the picture and his face froze. It turned out he was the manager and he promptly told us to get out, but we didn't until they turned off the lights and closed the store for fear they'd continue selling food to people."

    During an inspection by Toronto Public Health on Aug. 27, the bakery was given a conditional pass. Inspectors cited it for failure to protect food from contamination and inadequate temperature controls.

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