Blog — food borne illness

Mareya Ibrahim works to reduce food waste through sharing ways to prolong food life and use all parts of produce. Changes made to help the Earth: Reduces food waste through sharing ways to use all parts of produce and created a product to prolong life of fresh produce Ongoing efforts: Tries to eat a mostly plant-based diet, opts for organic and Fair Trade where possible, makes conscious decisions about meat intake Life ethos to do better for the Earth: Live like your children are inheriting your legacy I’ve been an environmentalist for most of my life, so ‘precycling’ (thinking about what I’m doing...

LISTEN NOW to learn how you can mitigate your risk of getting sick   Reprinted with permission from Bill Marler, Marler Clark. CDC and FDA announce more illnesses in another E. coli Outbreak tied to leafy greens. (Seattle) “With more illnesses, now with at least six with acute kidney failure, it is past time for the leafy green industry to put the health, safety and lives of consumers first,” said Marler Clark managing partner, Bill Marler. “Since the early 2000’s the industry has pushed prepackaged leafy greens on consumers without adequately addressing the root causes of many of these outbreaks...

More and more foodborne illness outbreaks occur from produce, so knowing how to prepare for your produce purchase is more important than ever. Thursday, March 14th, 2019 2:24PM By Lori Corbin Since it’s not required when cooking at home, most home chefs don’t really know true food safety basics. But Fit Foodie Chef Mareya Ibrahim says if you don’t handle your food properly, you and your family could be subjected to a foodborne illness. “According to the FDA, half of the top 10 most foodborne illness causing foods are produce items, and the No. 1 cause is the greens,” said...

You have twice the risk of getting sick if you eat out vs. eating at home. And man did I find that out the hard way. It was 6:30 am, and I had been throwing up every 5-10 minutes for two and a half hours. Just leave me here in a corner balled up like a fetus and let me die in peace, is all I could think. That’s how I felt two days ago when I got the worst case of food poisoning in my life from a restaurant in Los Angeles the night before my ‘big pitch’. It...