Posted by
Brian Peters on Tuesday, December 05, 2006 10:54:01 PM
This is number 90 for me. Ten more to a hundred and I'll give it my best to be more objective with my maybe last ten entries. With all of these e-coli outbreaks at Taco Bell, the best that can come out of this is a more pro-active approach to the fast food industry by the industry companies themselves and by the FDA. NBC Nightly News reported that the Taco Bell restaurant's that were in affected, were cleaning top to bottom literally, ceiling to floor. That gave me a thought. I know I've noticed, that most fast food establishment's are not the cleanest places in the world, but there's no reason why both the industry and the Fed's should not hold these places to higher standards. I've heard that often, lack of inspectors is a problem at the State level. I bet (another Vegas sure thing) that you or I could go into any FDA office and especially in D.C., and find a bunch of useless administrators and support adminstrators pushing useless memo's, emails, and office party invitations around. People or more importantly, billets/positions that could be used 'in the field' doing on site inspections. Another idea that the industry should adapt is a once a month closer, one the same day of a site, and have all the personnel employed work that day, cleaning. That would help immensely the overall cleanliness factor. The Fed's could also concentrate on the food items at the source through packaging and delivery and less on site cleanliness, if the industry takes a proactive approach to protect American's from food poisoning in the future, meaning today!!