Cantaloupe Recalls, Norovirus Nightmares & the Food Safety Chemical Nobody’s Talking About | Episode 167

About this episode

Francine and Matt discuss a recent cantaloupe recall, norovirus in retail, and an overlooked sanitizer in the food industry.

🍽️ Francine and Matt are building a global, fun, and inclusive Food Safety Family ! From the C-suite to the kitchen, they’re making safe food the norm everywhere. 👉 Follow Francine and Matt on LinkedIn for more food safety insights and updates. Another cantaloupe recall. Another round of questions about why the food industry keeps making the same mistakes — and whether the tools to fix them are already sitting on the shelf, ignored. In this episode of Don't Eat Poop!, Francine and Matt dig into a Salmonella cantaloupe recall, the science of why cantaloupes are such a high-risk product, and a sanitizer that's been EPA- and FDA-approved for years but still can't get traction in the industry. Plus: Francine's heading to the Food Safety Summit to talk norovirus in retail, and the stories from the field are exactly what you'd expect from Don’t Eat Poop. Spoiler alert: The solutions often exist. The problem is getting a risk-averse, relationship-driven industry to actually use them. In this episode: 00:00:00 Novovirus in Retail 00:06:57 Cantaloupe Salmonella Recall Breakdown 00:11:58 Hypochlorous Acid: The Sanitizer the Industry is Ignoring 00:19:04 Chemical Distribution &amp…

People in this episode

Hosts: Matthew Regusci, Francine L Shaw

Topics covered

• food safety
• cantaloupe recall
• norovirus
• sanitizers
• industry challenges

Keywords

• cantaloupe recall
• Salmonella
• norovirus
• food safety
• Hypochlorous Acid
• sanitizer
• food industry

Mentioned in this episode

Products: cantaloupe, Hypochlorous Acid

Places: Retail, Grocery Stores

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