Food service industry

Another source of bakery foods is the food service industry. Over 200,000 estabUshments, including restaurants, hospitals, and prisons, produce bakery foods with a combined value exceeding 8 biUion. 

Founded in 1959, Bartling is a manufacturer of tailor-made packaging for the food service industry. Bartling is a privately owned company with more than 250 employees. 

Earthcycle products are certified by the FDA for use in the food service industry. The take-out containers are both oil and water-resistant and are microwaveable. 

In the USA alone, more than 91 billion pounds of edible food (27% of what is produced for consumption) are lost each year by the retail, consumer, and food service industries, almost all of which is unrecoverable [1]. Composting is one recovery path however, it is time-eonsuming, location-dependent, and subject to contamination. At Purdue University, food waste from eafeteria trays is discarded separately from other trash and accounts for approximately 150 tons of food waste from residence halls and the Union. This does not inelude the waste from food prep. It is estimated that 340 tons per year of food waste is thrown in dumpsters or trash bins on Purdue campus (J. Zarate, West Lafayette, IN, 2006, personal eommunication). 

Does this mean that gloves are necessarily always safer than bare hands Not if an employee performs an adequate handwash with an effective antimicrobial product, but it does suggest that such handwashes commonly did not occur. Hence, corrective measures that must be implemented by the food service industry are behavioral. And human behavior depends upon motivation, which depends upon values and meaning—both cultural (shared) and individual. 

DL Charbonneau, JM Ponte, HA Kochanowski. A method of assessing the efficacy of hand sanitizers use of real soil encountered in the food service industry. J Food Prot 63 495-501, 2000. 

Topical antimicrobial handwashes and hand sanitization are very important in the food service industry. Important, also, is gloving. Chapter 19 addresses gloving and handwashing, and Chapter 20 provides research data from various studies. Chapter 21 discusses quality assurance issues, and Chapter 22 offers another perspective on the wash/glove controversy. 

Of course a large fraction of beef that is ultimately consumed does not go through retail outlets but rather is delivered to consumers via the restaurant and food service industries. Thus, given the scale of US food production, automated systems will be required to identify the source of the contamination, take effective and remedial measures to identify and isolate the contaminated food, and inform the public of the possible risks. One example of such a system is available to consumers of Japanese Wagyu beef who can key in the product code associated with a unit sold and obtain all information regarding the animal, its feed and treatment, and its pedigree ([17]). 

Expanded polystyrene (EPS) foam widely used in the food service industry is made by steam expansion of PS beads containing pentane or other blowing agents. The foam is... 

Slips and falls may appear to be simple trivial accidents, but they result in thousands of deaths and cost billions of dollars in direct and indirect cost [59]. According to statistics compiled by the National Safety Council, falls are the second leading cause of accidental deaths. Over 40% of the dollars spent on workers compensation in the U.S. food service industry are due to the results of slips and falls. Annual expense from slips and falls is about 12,000 per restaurant for an average of 3-4 accidents per year. In 1988, for example, more than 12,000 people died from accidental falls. In public areas such as hotels, motels, and restaurants, slips and falls occur more frequently than any other accidents. Slips and falls can result in serious injuries, especially to the head and back. The floor surface is the single most important factor contributing to slips and falls. The slip-fall relationship between the floor snrface and the floor coating is also an important consideration, as it relates to liability and worker s compensation, especially in the fast food industry, where a floor can be wet or greasy. 

Polyethylene Polyethylene (PE) gloves are available in a variety of packaging options for the food-service industry. 

Occupations at risk are likely a function of the opportunity for exposure to irritant and sensitizing plants. Some of the more obvious include botanists, the wholesale and retail flower industries, agriculture, forestry and the lumber industry, but other, less obvious occupations including pharmaceutical manufacturing, the food-service industry and food handlers, have made many lists [10]. 

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