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BBQ at your own risk!

by chiefinspector on July 11, 2011

Exposed food can be contaminated with bacteria in the air, from utensils or human handling, and if not kept at the proper temperature — hot or cold — the pathogens can multiply to reach infectious levels or produce toxins.

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Pizza Shop Owner Conspires To Infest Competition With Mice

March 2, 2011 Featured
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Ok, so let me get this straight… “The owner of a suburban Philadelphia pizza shop has been arraigned on charges he schemed to plant live mice in competing pizza parlors in hope of putting them out of business.” Pizza Owner Planted Mice On Competitor: MyFoxPHILLY.com Victims: Verona Pizza, Upper Darby – Urban Spoon Uncle Nick’s [...]

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Food Safety Modernization Act is now Law! -Insert Huge Asterisk Here-

January 5, 2011 Featured
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On Tuesday, January 4, 2011, President Obama signed into law the Food Safety Modernization Act to “improve the security and safety of our nation’s food supply.” There’s a few problems, however. The largest is, it’s unfunded. There doesn’t seem to be enough in the budget to cover the estimated $1.4 billion price tag. The second [...]

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Air travel IS dangerous!

November 1, 2010 Featured
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Holiday Season! Let’s go to grandma’s for Thanksgiving! Christmas ski trip to Vail, Colorado!!! Israel for Hanukkah! Jidda for Ramadan! NYC for Festivus! Holiday air travel and foodborne illness hold zero bias against religion or tradition, and neither should you! Please be advised. According to the Transportation Security Administration (TSA), “* Items purchased after the [...]

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Index Finger Wellington…

October 8, 2010 Fetid Blog
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As I can’t type really well without the use of my right index finger, even being left-handed, this post will be rather quick. As you may know, I’m a volunteer chef at a local shelter. Yesterday I successfully prepared the following menu for an expected 70 servings: Dried apricot and cranberry stuffed roasted pork loin [...]

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Of Politicians and Celebrity Chefs

October 5, 2010 Featured
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Ben’s Best is listed by the NYCDHMH as: BEN-NAT DELI & RESTAURANT 96-40 QUEENS BLVD QUEENS 11374 718-897-1700 Diners, Drive-ins and Dives is the name of one Guy Fieri’s Food Network television show. No wonder he was there. Congressman Ackerman is in his 13th term (28 years!) as New York’s 5th District congressman to the [...]

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No meat, No matter…

September 30, 2010 News
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Vegetarians and vegans are no less susceptible to foodborne illness.

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Gael Greene Twitters, Fetid Eats! Responds…

September 23, 2010 Featured
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I was never much of a Twitter user prior to starting this site. I thought Facebook provided quite enough in the level of ‘TMI’ one could read about in a day. However, I’m really starting to like it. Yes, it allows me to do a little viralization of Fetid Eats! (to the 3 actual followers [...]

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Grape Harvest Tour 2010

September 21, 2010 Featured
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Unfortunately, some establishments aren’t preparing for the yearly economic boon that these areas enjoy from the tourist swell of the season to make the entire experience enjoyable.

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Crab Meat Recall

September 17, 2010 Advisories
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Listeria monocytogenes is an organism which can cause serious and sometimes fatal infections in young children, frail or elderly people, and others with weakened immune systems.

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