Iowa chef licks 2 toads in kitchen, gets fined

Associated Press ^ | August 11, 2010

[Free ThinkerNY]

DAVENPORT, Iowa (AP) -- Maybe he was testing a new recipe.

Chef Christopher Turla earned his Davenport, Iowa restaurant a $335 ticket Wednesday after health inspectors saw a video of him kissing and licking toads in the kitchen.

[Kirkwood]

Your so-called FDA standard is actually the USDA standard and here it is at the FDA website:

http://www.fda.gov/Food/ResourcesForYou/HealthEducators/ucm109104.htm

Pork is to be cooked to 160F. Period, end of story. It never pays to make up stuff.

[JRandomFreeper]

Food safety advice for moms-to-be (And that's what that web page is) and others with compromised immune systems is different from the standards for restaurants.

Apples. Oranges.

The FDA did change the minimum temps on pork in 1999. That is a fact.

If you choose to believe that I'm making things up, fine. We have nothing left to say to one another.

/johnny

[JRandomFreeper]

http://www.fda.gov/Food/FoodSafety/RetailFoodProtection/FoodborneIllnessandRiskFactorReduction/RetailFoodRiskFactorStudies/ucm093797.htm#new

The original that I quoted was from there. About 4/5th of the way down.

/johnny