Food Safety
Prevent environmental causes of foodborne illnesses and outbreaks
Ensuring food safety in restaurants, banquet facilities, schools, and other institutions is important because
- More than half of all foodborne outbreaks in the United States are associated with restaurants, delis, banquet facilities, schools, and other institutions.
- Key restaurant practices affect transmission of norovirus and other causes of foodborne illness and outbreaks.
- From Inspector to Investigator: Finding the Factors that Lead to Foodborne Outbreaks (short training video)
- Adoption of Food Code Provisions Is Linked to Lower Rates of Foodborne Norovirus Outbreaks
- Can Restaurant Managers Talk with Sick Workers? Three Things Restaurant Managers Need to Know
- Outbreak Rates and Restaurant Inspection Practices
- Retail Food Safety Regulatory Association Collaborative
- System Theory in Food Safety