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- Title
2005 Food Code Updates Food Safety Guidelines.
- Abstract
This article reports that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration has issued the 2005 edition of the food Code, which contains the latest science-based information on food safety for retail and food service industries. The food Code is used as a reference by nearly 3,000 regulatory agencies that oversee food safety in restaurants, grocery stores, nursing homes, and other institutional and retail settings. In collaboration with the Conference for Food Protection, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, and the U.S. Department of Agriculture, the updated Food Code focuses on enhancing food safety practices according to new scientific and program information. The most significant changes are as follows: It refocuses date-marking provisions on foods that present a higher risk of contamination. Date marking is the practice of indicating the date or day by which a ready-to-eat, potentially hazardous food should be consumed, sold, or discarded. It updates employee health provisions to include better ways to protect public health according to new science identifying the pathogens that are most likely to be transmitted from an infected worker to consumers through food.
- Subjects
UNITED States; FOOD industry; UNITED States. Food &; Drug Administration; UNITED States. Dept. of Agriculture; CONFERENCE for Food Protection; FOOD service; CONSUMERS; PUBLIC health; FOOD handling
- Publication
Journal of Environmental Health, 2006, Vol 68, Issue 6, p80
- ISSN
0022-0892
- Publication type
Article