Let’s start at the very beginning – the early 1990s The years leading up to the formation of Verner Wheelock Associates in 1990 were interesting ones in terms of the understanding of food safety – or should we say lack of it. One of the most notable was an outbreak of food poisoning at Stanley […]
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Food Safety & Hygiene NewsYou could be forgiven for thinking that ‘umami’ is the name of a hurricane or word concocted by comic Vic Reeves for use on his TV show Shooting Stars. That simply isn’t true. What is true, though, is that ‘umami’ is an invented word, created by Dr Kikunae Ikeda of Tokyo Imperial University in 1908.
RSPH Winner for Verner Wheelock and Symington’s Last year three of our delegates won top student awards from the Royal Society for Public Health (RSPH) so we were really pleased to hear that another of our delegates had won an RSPH award this year. Sarah Jolly-Hart from Symington’s in Leeds has gained top marks in the
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Food Safety & Hygiene News Food Safety Training HACCP training Monthly UpdatesSome studies have shown that people eating a plant-based diet tend to live longer and healthier lives than meat-eaters. In fact vegetarians have a lower incidence of cancer, especially colon, stomach, mouth, oesophagus, lung, prostate, bladder, and breast cancers. It’s reckoned that this is probably attributed to the phytonutrients present in plant foods, as well
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Food Safety & Hygiene News Nutrition Training NewsListeria monocytogenes – it’s a little critter, but it’s been making quite a name for itself recently. If you’ve been reading the newspapers or following various food safety alerts, you’ll be aware that there have been several product recalls on account of confirmed or suspected incidences of Listeria, especially in the United States. The most
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