Category — Sanitation

In this episode of the Sanitation series on the Culinary Student Podcast, we continue our discussion of the Flow of Food with Storage.

Link to Podcast mentioned:

Chef Tom Beckman in This Week in Food.

Sanitation #7: Storage [ 23:33 | 21.59 MB ] Play Now | Play in Popup | Download

In this episode of Sanitation, we continue our discussion of the flow of food and cover the topics of purchasing and receiving and considerations for bringing in fresh, safe food into the establishment.

Sanitation #6: Purchasing & Receiving [ 18:36 | 17.06 MB ] Play Now | Play in Popup | Download

In episode 5 of Sanitation on the Culinary Student Podcast, we begin unit 2 of the course where talk about the flow of food. Today, we’ll be discussing time and temperature control, preventing cross-contamination and the exciting topic of thermometers!

Note: I recorded this podcast on my porch with my tablet — I apologize for the different quality, but the day was too nice out to waste!

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Sanitation #5: The Flow of Food Introduction [ 13:07 | 12.04 MB ] Play Now | Play in Popup | Download

In this episode of the Culinary Student Podcast, we’ll be discussing how to be a safer food handler. In particular, we’ll talk about how we, as foodhandlers, can contaminate food; the components of maintaining a good personal hygiene program as a food handler and as management.

Also, since we’ve been focusing so much on pathogens that can contaminate food, we’re going to talk about diseases that are not transmitted through food, despite social stigma.

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Sanitation #4: The Safe Foodhandler [ 20:14 | 18.54 MB ] Play Now | Play in Popup | Download

In this episode of Sanitation, we discuss contaminants, allergens and concepts behind providing a food defense system.

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Sanitation #3: Contaminants and Allergens [ 15:57 | 14.62 MB ] Play Now | Play in Popup | Download

In this episode of Sanitation, we’re going to cover the microworld and pathogens that case foodborne illness.

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Below are a list of resources mentioned in the podcast.

Controlling Time and Temperature

• Bacillus Cereus Gastroenteritis
  
• Listeriosis
• Hemorrhagic Colitis
• Clostridium Perfringens Gastroenteritis
• Botulism

Cross-Contamination

• Salmonellosis

Personal Hygiene

• Shigellosis
  
• Staphylococcal Gastroenteritis
• Hepatitis A
• Norovirus Gastroenteritis

Purchasing from Approved, Reputable Suppliers

• Vibrio Vulnificus primary septicemia/gastroenteritis
• Anisakiasis
• Cryptosporidiosis
• Giardiasis
• Scombroid Poisoning
• Ciguatera Fish Poisoning
• Paralytic Shellfish Poisoning
• Neurotoxin Shellfish Poisoning
• Amnesic Shellfish Poisoning

Sanitation #2: The Microworld [ 18:55 | 17.35 MB ] Play Now | Play in Popup | Download

In this episode of the Sanitation (self-study) series, we cover the basic principles of providing safe food and discuss hazards and costs associated neglecting good sanitation practices.  For this course we will be using the ServSafe Coursebook, updated with the 2009 FDA food code and ServSafe answer sheet for the certification.  Feel free to pick it up from Amazon if you’d like to follow along for the series.

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Sanitation #1: Providing Safe Food [ 17:43 | 16.25 MB ] Play Now | Play in Popup | Download