By Dennis Keith, Founder & CEO, Respro Food Safety

When food safety goes sideways, restaurants usually take the public hit — headlines, bad reviews, lost revenue, and sometimes litigation — even when the root cause started far upstream. That’s because pathogens and adulterants often enter through ingredients delivered by your restaurant food suppliers.

And the stakes are real. In the U.S., foodborne illness is still...

Date marking is a foundational system that supports food safety, minimizes waste, strengthens your food rotation system, and keeps your operation prepared for every health inspection. Even when food is held at proper temperatures, bacteria still grows on refrigerated, ready-to-eat foods. The goal isn’t to stop growth entirely (you can’t) — it’s to keep it from reaching danger...

New updates to the FDA Food Code allow culture-independent diagnostic tests (CIDTs) — not just stool cultures — to clear some employees after STEC, Shigella, or nontyphoidal Salmonella (NTS). In many cases, reinstatement still requires two consecutive negative lab results from a...