In the sizzling documentary "Super Size Me", the DVD extras contain an experiment performed on the shelf life of a McDonald's french fry. Is it possible that I may have identified the science behind the almost perpetual shelf life of the fried spud?

As I was reading the latest copy of Food Quality magazine, I came across an article describing new antimicrobial products that were currently undergoing extensive testing for potential inclusion in industrial paints and clothing. One such combination was identified as an acrylamide polymer.

If there is to be greater transparency about hygiene standards in food premises, regulators will have to take account of the public in their communications. The public will need to be educated about the inspection and enforcement process and any systems used to disclose inspection results.

We the public demand an increase in food safety and sanitation!

We at NakedBread hope to make a difference by offering late-breaking news items, food science data and restaurant inspection reports available in an easy to search and syndicate forum.

Thank you for your support.

Craig Chiodi

07.nov.08
New York Times
Jennifer 8. Lee
http://cityroom.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/11/07/another-year-another-bout-of-stomach-flu/
A highly contagious stomach virus is circulating in New York City, pushing emergency room visits for vomiting and diarrhea up 19 percent in the last two weeks to 400 per day, the city?s Department of Health and Mental Hygiene reported on Friday.

08.nov.08
Online Athens
Lee Shearer
http://www.onlineathens.com/stories/110908/new_353876020.shtml
The University of Georgia College of Veterinary Medicine didn't inform a community liaison committee about potentially serious leaks in a high-security biocontainment building until reporters learned about the leaks.
The leaks flooded a laboratory in UGA's new Animal Health Research Center, a lab off East Campus Road that is designed to let researchers work safely with dangerous animal diseases that also can infect people.

16.sep.08
Reuters
Michael Kahn
http://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/health-and-wellbeing/health-news/common-plastics-chemical-linked-to-illness-932711.html
British researchers have linked a common chemical used in plastic drink containers and baby bottles to health problems, specifically heart disease and diabetes.
Environmental and consumer activists who have questioned the safety of bisphenol A, or BPA, have relied on studies showing harm from exposure in laboratory animals.

16.sep.08
Associated Press
Frederic J. Frommer
http://ap.google.com/article/ALeqM5jYCps4elThCbt4fcA1bKFoxNscmwD9383GLO0
WASHINGTON ? An undercover video shot at an Iowa pig farm shows workers hitting sows with metal rods, slamming piglets on a concrete floor and bragging about jamming rods up into sows' hindquarters.
On the video, obtained by The Associated Press, a supervisor tells an undercover investigator for People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals that when he gets angry or a sow won't move, "I grab one of these rods and jam it in her (anus)."

13.sep.08
Reuters
Josie Cox
http://uk.reuters.com/article/topNews/idUKLC48222220080912
http://barfblog.foodsafety.ksu.edu/2008/09/articles/wacky-and-strange-but-true/hallucinogenic-chocolates-doom-berlin-sweet-shop/index.html
BERLIN -- Police closed down a Berlin sweet shop after discovering the owner was selling chocolates and lollipops laced with hallucinogenic mushrooms and marijuana.
The 23-year old owner of the shop in the trendy east Berlin district of Prenzlauer Berg, an area known for its vibrant night life, was taken into custody on suspicion of drug-dealing.

13.sep.08
The Associated Press
Mark Walsh and Olga R. Rodriguez
http://ap.google.com/article/ALeqM5hccaaOQsaUlBEKLLR0Ax-GSH8-RwD935S1MG4
http://barfblog.foodsafety.ksu.edu/2008/09/articles/food-safety-communication/buying-fresh-produce-is-an-act-of-faith-heres-why/index.html
ALLENDE, Mexico -- At the end of a dirt road in northern Mexico, the conveyer belts processing hundreds of tons of vegetables a year for U.S. and Mexican markets are open to the elements, protected only by a corrugated metal roof.

12.aug.08
Barfblog
Andrew Reece
http://barfblog.foodsafety.ksu.edu/2008/08/articles/yuck-factor/restaurant-sinks-are-not-bathtubs/

11.aug.08
Time
Deirdre Van Dyk
http://www.time.com/time/health/article/0,8599,1831421,00.html
The public-advocacy group that helped maneuver the trans-fats ban in New York City restaurants and pushed national chains to divulge fat and calorie content on their menus is agitating for more change. The Washington-based Center for Science in the Public Interest (CSPI) is now calling for easy public access to restaurant health-code grades, improved health-inspector training and a nationwide standard for restaurant inspections.