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Source: Doug Powell, 785-317-0560, dpowell@k-state.edu
Website: http://www.k-state.edu/media/mediaguide/bios/powellbio.html
Tuesday, Jan. 4, 2011
STUDY LOOKS AT ENHANCING THE 1xbet best casino website CULTURE TO REDUCE FOODBORNE ILLNESS
MANHATTAN -- If providing safe food is a priority, why do large outbreaks of foodborne illness keep happening? Incidents like 2010's salmonella-in-eggs outbreak sickened more than 1,900 across the U.S. and led to the recall of 500 million eggs.
A new study by a Kansas State University professor and colleagues finds how the culture of 1xbet best casino website is practiced within an organization can be a significant risk factor in foodborne illness.
Doug Powell, associate professor of 1xbet best casino website at K-State, said how businesses and organizations operate above and beyond minimal 1xbet best casino website regulations and inspections, or their 1xbet best casino website culture, is often overlooked.
"You'd think making customers sick is bad for business, yet some firms go out of their way to ignore 1xbet best casino website ," Powell said. "Some places are motivated by money and efficiencies. The amount of regulation, inspection and audits just doesn’t seem to matter. And those 'Employees Must Wash Hands' signs don't really work."
Powell, along with Casey Jacob, a former K-State research assistant, and Ben Chapman, an assistant professor at North Carolina State University, examined three 1xbet best casino website failures: an E. coli O157:H7 outbreak in Wales in 2005 that sickened 157 and killed one; a listeria outbreak in Canada in 2008 that sickened 57 and killed 23; and a salmonella outbreak in the U.S. in 2009 linked to peanut paste that killed nine and sickened 691.
Their study "Enhancing 1xbet best casino website Culture to Reduce Rates of Foodborne Illness" is being published by the journal Food Control and is available in advance online at http://bit.ly/hDh9EE.
"Creating a culture of 1xbet best casino website requires application of the best science with the best management and communication systems," Chapman said. "Operators should know the risks associated with their products, how to manage them, and most important, how to communicate with and compel their staff to employ good practices -- it's a package deal."
According to the researchers, individuals focusing on 1xbet best casino website risks within an organization with a good 1xbet best casino website culture do the following:
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* Don't blame customers, including commercial buyers and consumers, when illnesses are linked to their products.