What is a Foodborne Illness?
What is foodborne illness? A foodborne illness, also known as food poisoning, is a sickness transferred to people by food or water. It is...
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Post-Pandemic Re-opening Checklist
Many of you have been closed entirely for many months, some reducing capacity a lot and just doing takeout. If this sounds like you,...
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Vibrio and Raw Oysters - What you need to know.
Updated August 11, 2021 People love their fresh raw oysters, and there are many delicious ways to consume them. For example, you can go...
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Q & A - Will my inspector return for in-person inspections now the restrictions have loosened?
July 1, 2021 A - Great question! Yes, you can expect to see your inspector again soon. It will be a full in-person inspection with the...
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Installing Google Translate - Photo Instructions
Step 1 ↓ This is the opening page. Click on TRANSLATE WEBSITE. Step 2 ↓ This is the next window. Click HERE. Step 3 ↓ This is the next...
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Q & A - Looking for a guide to do an in-house health inspection. Do you have a form?
Hello. I did a search and found a very detailed booklet from Los Angeles Public Health Department, called Food Safety Tools For Success....
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Maskless Guests and Required Verification of Vaccination Status!
We were all taken by storm when Governor Brown announced fully vaccinated people were no longer to wear masks in public spaces, on the...
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The Buck Stops With You Preventing (Attention all cooks!)
The statement ‘the buck stops here’ was made famous by President Truman. This was in contradiction to the more common phrase, ‘pass the...
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Sanitizing vs. Disinfecting
Which one of these 'disinfectants' is approved for front of house disinfecting? If you guessed the Seventh Generation you are right! This...
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Role of the County Health Inspector
The health inspector or the Registered Environmental Health Specialist (REHS) is not inspecting your facility with the intent of finding...
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Correcting a Repeat Priority Cooling Violation
Improper cooling of hot food by restaurants is a significant cause of foodborne illness. The Center for Disease stated that in the United...
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Food Carts and Brick & Mortars - Styrofoam -
Portland food carts vendors use approximately 60,000 disposable containers every month! That’s a lot of trash especially if Styrofoam....
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Biofilms : Secret colonies growing on your kitchen cutting boards?
The term biofilm may sound strange, but you have probably seen them more than you realize. The slime that grows in ice machines, the...
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Vacuum Sealing aka Reduced Oxygen Packaging (ROP)
Reduced Oxygen Packaging (ROP) is when you remove or reduce the amount of oxygen in a package. The most frequent uses for this process in...
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Eating Dirt and Increasing Allergens
CDC has an on-line article in Emerging Diseases entitled Eating Dirt. The author explores the relationship of eating dirt and our health....
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The Restroom Access Act (Ally’s Law)
The Restroom Access Act is a law passed in several states that requires retail establishments that do not have public restrooms to...
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Spring and the Swarming Fruit Flies
During my inspections over the last couple of weeks, I have seen excess fruit flies and been asked how to deal with a fruit fly problem....
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Food Carts : Handwashing Requirements
Class I mobile units are the only units not required to have handwashing. Class I units can only sell prepackaged foods and cannot even...
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Hot Holding and Thermometer Requirements
10/5/12 There is a new hot holding temperature, and it is 135°F. This is a five degree drop from the previous food code. The science has...
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Refrigerator Risks - A Warm Cooler
We all know a warm refrigerator is usually the most stressful thing we can come across during the day. I opened my restaurant with a...
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