Wednesday, June 24, 2020

COVID-19 Basic Food Safety


Back to basics. Walk, then run.

This week, it's about food safety. You're not surprised, are you?

TTFN, Fred.

Quote of the week: "Personal happiness lies in knowing that life is not a checklist of acquisition or achievement. Your qualifications are not your life." - J. K. Rowling at the 2008 Harvard Commencement Address (British author, screenwriter, producer, and philanthropist, 1965 - )


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Wednesday, May 27, 2020

Handwashing

Handwashing. It's always been about handwashing.

This week, it's about handwashing. You're not surprised, are you?

TTFN, Fred.

Quote of the week: "Many persons have a wrong idea of what constitutes true happiness. It is not attained through self-gratification but through fidelity to a worthy purpose." - Helen Keller (1880 - 1968)

Wednesday, May 6, 2020

Three Ways to Protect Your Mental Health During – and After – COVID-19

This article was recently shared in a recent Institute of Food Technologists Update. Intuitively we know it's not just ourselves that are stressed, but I'll admit it made me feel better knowing for certain I wasn't the only one.

TTFN, Fred.


Quote of the week: "Slow down and enjoy life. It's not only the scenery you miss by going too fast - you also miss the sense of where you are going and why." - Eddie Cantor (American "illustrated song" performer, comedian, dancer, singer, actor, and songwriter, 1892 - 1964)

Wednesday, April 29, 2020

How to Manage Your Stress When the Sky Is Falling

This article was recently shared in a recent Institute of Food Technologists Update. Intuitively we know it's not just ourselves that are stressed, but I'll admit it made me feel better knowing for certain I wasn't the only one.

TTFN, Fred.
 

Quote of the week: "All sanity depends on this: that it should be a delight to feel heat strike the skin, a delight to stand upright, knowing the bones are moving easily under the flesh." - Doris Lessing (British-Zimbabwean (Rhodesian) novelist, 1919 – 2013)


Wednesday, April 22, 2020

Is It Even Possible to Focus on Anything Right Now?

This article was recently shared in a recent Institute of Food Technologists Update. Intuitively we know it's not just ourselves that are stressed, but I'll admit it made me feel better knowing for certain I wasn't the only one.

TTFN, Fred.

Quote of the week: "Cherish all your happy moments: they make a fine cushion for old age." - Christopher Morley (American journalist, novelist, essayist and poet, 1890 - 1957)



Wednesday, April 1, 2020

Science! based information available about COVID-19 and food safety.


Simply put, this is some of the best science based information available about COVID-19 and food safety. 

https://foodsafety.ces.ncsu.edu/covid-19-resources/

Be safe.

TTFN, Fred.

Quote of the week: "Content makes poor men rich; discontentment makes rich men poor." - Benjamin Franklin (Founding Father and a polymath, inventor, scientist, printer, politician, freemason and diploma, 1706 - 1790)

Wednesday, March 18, 2020

Be Safe


It's times like these I'm thankful for my obsessive-compulsive nature and the need to washing my hands ten times a day working in the food industry.

Stay safe, wash your hands, and practice social distancing. There is plenty of historical evidence showing it works, dating back just over 100 years to the last time a pandemic swept the globe.

TTFN, Fred.

Quote of the week: "Do not weep; do not wax indignant. Understand." - Baruch Spinoza (Dutch philosopher of Portuguese Sephardi origin, 1632 - 1677)

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