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Food Safety and Cannabis Edibles
By Betty Wedman-St Louis, Ph.D. This article was originally published on FoodSafetyMagazine.com and has been reposted to the PathSensors blog. All credit goes to Dr. Betty Wedman-St Louis and the Food Safety Magazine website. Cannabis has been used as an oral...
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Modern Buildings Need Bioterror Protection
In the modern age, simple building security is, unfortunately, no longer enough. Gone are the days when a security guard could mitigate all threats simply through force. Instead, large businesses and government institutions must now additionally be concerned with the...
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Meat Inspections Continue During Shutdown, But Fewer Food Safety Checks Happening Overall
By Grant Gerlock. This article was originally published on KUNC, Community Radio for Northern Colorado, and has been re-posted to the PathSensors blog. All credit goes to Grant Gerlock and the KUNC website. Originally published on January 24, 2019 5:45 pm The partial...
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Most Common Foodborne Pathogens
By Taylor Wolfram. This article was originally published on EatRight.org and has been reposted to the PathSensors blog. All credit goes to Taylor Wolfram, MS, RDN, LDN, and the EatRight website. According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention,...
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Dangerous Prison Mail – What this Means for Your Business
Dangerous Prison Mail – What This Means for Your Business This post was originally published by Soma Martin at SoBran Inc, a PathSensors partner. All credit goes to Soma Martin and SoBran Inc. "The Postal Service, which touts itself as the most trusted government...
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Zone 1 Listeria Testing – Yes or No?
We’ve all been exposed to the threat of foodborne illness, whether from the scares at Chipotle, the recent E. Coli outbreaks in Californian romaine lettuce, or the millions of pounds of produce recalled every year across industries. Of the recalls caused by pathogens,...
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Recalls show foodborne threats continue
By Coral Beach on December 26, 2018 This is a piece originally published in Food Safety News on 12/26/2018 and re-posted on the PathSensors blog. All credit goes to Coral Beach and Food Safety News. Some of the biggest food recall news of 2018 didn’t come from a food...
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2018 was a High-Water Mark for Nationally Publicized Dangerous Mail Security Incidents
*This article was originally published by Soma Martin at SoBran Inc. Contact her at: smartin@sobran-inc.com. These high profile incidents are the tip of the iceberg. For every mail threat that makes the news, most others are handled discretely without national press...
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A Post-Halloween Trick: the Moldy Pumpkin
Each October, sights of carved pumpkins greet passersby on doorsteps and porches across the country. Ghoulish faces and spooky sayings illuminated by candles on bright orange gourd-like fruit are a sure sign that Halloween is just around the corner. In early November,...
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Keep Food Safety Risks From Customers’ Shopping Carts
by Dr. Chip Manual - 10/25/18 This is a piece originally published in The Progressive Grocer and cross-posted to the PathSensors blog. All credit goes to Dr. Chip Manual and the Progressive Grocer. The financial impact of foodborne pathogens like Listeria...
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