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Hey New Jersey Starbucks, did you forget what happened with Hepatitis A in Mendham in 2019?

Bill Marler

In July 2019, a hepatitis A (HAV) outbreak was discovered in New Jersey linked to Mendham Golf and Tennis Club at 2 Golf Lane in Mendham Township, New Jersey. Symptom onset dates ranged from July 11 to August 7, 2019. This case’s symptoms started on June 24, 2019, and he was excluded from work on June 30. How soon we forget.

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CDC FoodNet:  2019 was not the best year in Food Safety

Bill Marler

Infantis moved from the ninth most common Salmonella serotype among infected persons during 1996–1998 to the sixth most common in 2019. Typhimurium moved from the most common serotype during 1996–1998 to the third most common in 2019. With COVID-19, what will 2020 bring? The incidence of some serotypes has declined.

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USDA Economic Research Service: Salmonella accounted for nearly 80 percent of pathogen violations in U.S. food imports from 2002 to 2019

Bill Marler

From 2002 to 2019, 22,460 pathogen/toxin violations were discovered among imported shipments. This chart was drawn from the ERS report Examining Pathogen-Based Import Refusals: Trends and Analysis From 2002 to 2019 , published December 2021. . A recent USDA, Economic Research Service (ERS) study examined the number of U.S.

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Global Air Travel Capacity Set to Surpass Yearly Flight Figures in 2018 and 2019

Hospitality Net

Travel offered to both corporate and leisure clients combined is set to surpass the annual travel capacity in 2018 and 2019, that is according to FCM Consulting’s Q4-2023* Quarterly Global Trends Report, citing data from Cirium.

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Listeria illnesses from 2017 prompt Almark Foods egg recall in 2019?

Bill Marler

Almark Foods and the FDA need to explain why positive product tests and illnesses in 2017 did not stop positive product tests and illnesses in 2019. Listeria specimens from ill people were collected from April 10, 2017, to November 12, 2019. Ill people range in age from less than 1 to 82 years, with a median age of 75. monocytogenes.

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MRM’s 10 Most-Read Articles of 2019

Modern Restaurant Management

Before we look forward to 2020, we need to glance back at 2019. Modern Restaurant Management (MRM) magazine continued to grow, registering more than half a million page views. Again, most of our top posts showcased thought leadership on hot topics in restaurant management.

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MRM Research Roundup: Mid-December 2019 Edition

Modern Restaurant Management

While restaurant sales were lower for November of 2018, November of 2019 did not include the same holiday headwinds. Second, the shift of Thanksgiving into December of 2019 converts from tailwind to headwind this month. percent from 2018 to 2019, sales for the whole weekend only increased about four percent. First, at 2.1