Farmers market is enjoying increasing popularity in recent years for its advantages in building sustainable communities. Like other emerging markets that grow faster than their management capacity, however, hidden perils of the farmers market are becoming visible. Food safety is one key issue being endangered as the market expands. Being temporary and open in its form, most farmers markets do n...

Marie-José Côté, Canadian Food Inspection Agency, Ottawa Laboratory (Fallowfield), Centre for Plant Quarantine Pests, 3851 Fallowfield Road, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada, K2H 8P9; Marie-Claude Tardif, Health Canada, Food Directorate, Building #7, Tunney’s Pasture, P.L. 0700E1, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada K1A 0L2; and Allison J. Meldrum, Canadian Food Inspection Agency, Ottawa Laboratory (Fallowfield), C...

OBJECTIVES Foodborne illness is an important contributor to morbidity and health system costs in Canada. Using number of critical hazards as a proxy for food safety, we sought to better understand how to improve food safety in restaurants. We compared the current standard of annual inspections to twice-yearly inspections among restaurants "at risk" for food safety infractions. These were restau...

At present, China exists a problem that the cost of food sampling inspection is too high. This paper attempts to reduce number items in same category, inspection, and improve work efficiency through association analysis national data. And this applies Apriori algorithm analyse rules, which based on unqualified pastry data 2019 database. Finally, we obtain 10 strong rules experiments. The result...

Objective: As Americans consume more meals outside the home, food safety of restaurants is more critical. The purpose of this study is to examine the effect of food service establishment (FSE) inspection frequency on FSE performance. In this study, the U.S. Air Force (USAF) public health system is compared to Ohio local public health departments (Ohio LPHDs). The USAF inspects FSEs more frequen...