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Protecting families from contaminated food and water
How Many of These Risky Food Behaviors Are You Guilty Of?
May 29, 2025
Risky food behaviors can lead to foodborne illness. Small choices can have a big impact on food safety. How many are you guilty of? Risky Food Behaviors at the Grocery Store Food safety starts at the beginning. With ingredients. Avoid… read more
The Biggest Raw Milk Recalls in History
May 27, 2025
Raw milk has been a controversial topic especially lately when it seems that every time, we turn around there is a post on social media offering a herd share of raw milk often designed to be deceptive to avoid being… read more
CDC Releases Updated Foodborne Illness Statistics Report. Why Does Historical Data Matter?
May 27, 2025
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) issued their updated foodborne illness statistics report. This report updates historical trends of foodborne illness germs and is based on data up to 2019. What germs were found most often? Which ones… read more
Make Food Colorful Again! FDA Announces Approved Food Colors to Replaced Banned Synthetic Dyes
May 27, 2025
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) recently announced that they have given the green light for three approved food colors to replace banned synthetic petroleum-based dyes. This a few weeks after the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS)… read more
UK Scientists Improve AI to Detect Foodborne Illness Using Restaurant Reviews
May 23, 2025
Last year, Make Food Safe considered the possibility of using AI to detect foodborne illness using restaurant reviews. But new technological discoveries often age like milk. In just a year, so much has changed. A new study from the UK… read more
The Evolution of Food Safety Regulations
May 23, 2025
Food safety regulations help keep our food supply safe. Ensuring that food manufacturers adhere to safety standards to ensure our food is free of contaminants, adulterants, and harmful substances. While we have certainly come a long way, we have yet… read more
Have You Ever Wondered Who Is Responsible for Airplane Food Safety? I Bet You Do Now!
May 21, 2025
Frequently fliers often have to worry about airplane food safety more than the normal traveler. Those who trek across the country regularly for work or fly long distances more so than others. Restaurants have local and state health departments. Food… read more
What Are Synthetic Dyes and Why Does HHS Want Them Banned from Food?
May 20, 2025
Will synthetic dyes be removed from food? If so. How soon could we see these changes? In a move toward the “Make America Healthy Again” initiative, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) and U.S Department of Health and Human… read more
Not So Fun-Guy, Fungus Mycotoxins Emerge as Deadly Food Poisoning Topic
May 19, 2025
Fungus mycotoxins have been around for ages. They are naturally occurring, but historically have gone unnoticed in food poisoning. But that doesn’t mean they weren’t there. They just were not historically tested, and therefore not widely publicized. Until now. As… read more
Scientists Use Grape Kool-Aid to Study Food Poisoning Memories
May 9, 2025
Food poisoning memories can not only drum up phantom feelings from just the smell of a certain dish or ingredient. But also create aversions to certain foods. Even permanently. Is this preference based on science? Psychology? Or both? Scientists from… read more