I am the author of Food Safety: Old Habits, New Perspectives and Food Microbiology – The Laboratory. I have been a food safety microbiologist for 35 years, and have worked both in government and industry. I believe that everyone – government regulators, farmers and ranchers, food processors, food service workers, transport companies, educators and consumers – has a responsibility to ensure that the food we eat is as safe as we can make it.
If you want to communicate directly with me, please send an email to and I’ll get right back to you.
Cheers!
Phyllis Entis, MSc., SM(NRCM)
Phyllis,
If I had a magic wand, I would take both of us back to the days when you were demonstrating ISO-GRID, and I was managing Sci-Tek Labs for Sara Lee in Northbrook, IL. We were both much younger back then, and had to tolerate the tales of Dr. Rafael Pedraja. Glad to see that you are well, and as beautiful as ever.
Avoice from the past
Ernie McCullough
By: ERNIE MCCULLOUGH, Ph.D. on April 27, 2011
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Ernie! Glad to hear from you. One of the nice things about blogging is that pleasant voices from the past keep popping up.
By: foodbuglady on April 27, 2011
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Hi Phyllis! IMPORTANT!
I need your assistance! On Aug 25th,2011 my 20 yr old daughter Jordan ate cantaloupe in an Oklahoma restaurant. On the 28th I took her to our local emergency room for treatment after she had spent the past few days vomiting and having diarrhea. She was treated for pain and nausea & sent home with an rx for 2 antibiotics and phenrgan for nausea. She continued to have even more severe symptoms & was unable to take the oral meds prescribed. On 10/2/11 she was taken by ambulance to the same local hospital where she has been admitted. In November of 2011 she had her gall bladder removed and has been sensitive to certains foods so the doctors felt that she may have been problems dur to that. She had a cat scan on the 28th that was negative. Today she had an endoscopy which shows that she has a bacterioa of unknown origin! I informed the hospital when she was in the ERthat she had eaten cantaloupe in Oklahoma and I was concerned that she might have Listeria. Do you know what locations in Ok that the contaminated cantaloupes were found? I’m so grateful for the information that you provide and am one of your loyal email subscribers.
Thank you so much!
Angela
By: Angela Gunning on October 3, 2011
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Phyllis:
I follow your twitter postings and visit your blog posts to supplement the food safety information I receive from the other blogs we both seem to follow. One of the problems that innovators in the food safety arena have is that anything new or different becomes a target. Take the case of BPI’s use of ammonia as a processing aid for pathogen elimination in our beef production. To combat negative mis-information or sensationalized accounts (ala Jamie Oliver), we have deleoped some youtube videos to start getting out our message. We would be very interested in getting your feedback on these videos. Follow the links below:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Fj81Ljx58s
Regards, Rich Jochum
By: Rich Jochum on November 12, 2011
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