Risky Food-Safety Behavior More Common Than Thought: Video Study

All the more reason to gain control of your caloric intake. See here and here.

How safe is the food we get from restaurants, cafeterias and other food-service providers? A new study from North Carolina State University - the first study to place video cameras in commercial kitchens to see how precisely food handlers followed food-safety guidelines - discovered that risky practices can happen more often than previously thought.

"Meals prepared outside the home have been implicated in up to 70 percent of food poisoning outbreaks, making them a vital focus area for food safety professionals," says Dr. Ben Chapman, assistant professor and food safety specialist in the department of family and consumer sciences at NC State and lead author of the paper. "We set out to see how closely food handlers were complying with food safety guidance, so that we can determine how effective training efforts are."

Prepare your own meals and eat more safely.