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Last week it was apples. This week it’s frozen smoothie blends. There are more listeria outbreaks being reported and it’s that much more important for us to really think before we bite. This interview with Chalene Johnson for her award winning “Best of iTunes” podcast THE CHALENE SHOW is a public service announcement. What you will learn is that there are 5 key places where food safety is of the utmost importance, and your diligence to recognizing this is essential to your family’s health. Please take the 30 minutes to listen and share this podcast with the people you love....

This is a public service announcement, because the impact of proper food safety practices is so vast. We are greatly concerned by the information being given by thought leaders in the produce and food safety world regarding the efficacy of water alone in cleaning produce. Based on data from FDA.gov and journals such as the Journal of Science and Sustainable Development, it is clear that water and even chlorinated water show much lower than a 1 log reduction of bacteria. This has been corroborated by our own third party studies with Earthbound Farms, the Institute for Food Safety and Micro...

I can’t quite put my experience into words as I battled for my life on the Food Network’s Cutthroat Kitchen but ‘strange’ is definitely one of them. If you’re a fan of the top rated show on the channel for food voyeurs, you probably watched me writhing around in the recliner, laughing your face off. The theme for the December 21st episode – the first of the new season – is called ‘I would do anything for loaf.” But let me tell ya’, having garlic stuck to your butt while trying to prep and not cut your finger off has...

Gleaming, sparkling apples so shiny you could ice skate on them. Inviting….or not? What’s underneath that brilliant surface may not be as healthy as you would like to thinks. On the road to your local store, produce travels and average of 1,500 miles just to get to you – meaning days, and sometimes weeks in transit. Producers often use wax to coat fruit and veggies to give them additional shelf life, so they make it to you ‘fresh’ and not wilted or spoiled in that timeframe. While the idea of eating wax on its own may cause you to lose...