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...

CDC has an on-line article in Emerging Diseases entitled Eating Dirt. The author explores the relationship of eating dirt and our health....

The Restroom Access Act is a law passed in several states that requires retail establishments that do not have public restrooms to...

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....

Class I mobile units are the only units not required to have handwashing. Class I units can only sell prepackaged foods and cannot even...

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...

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...