and you’re right christy .. it’s a wonder salmonella was the only problem ..

but as to the leaky-roof .. raq peanuts stored next to finished product story .. if you’re referring to con-agra .. that wasn’t the case at all .. the raw product wasn’t anywhere near the product line .. and the problems weren’t “caused” by a leaky roof either .. they had many more problems than that ..

the first big problem is the way peanut butter is made .. it’s a continous-loop process .. the product lines and the piping and the pumps are never emptied and cleaned out … the process is supposedly insulated from contamination by flooding system with a nitrogen blanket [ the absence of oxygen keeping bacteria from growing ] ..but when the nitorgen system breaks down .. or is left in disrepair .. the system fails to do the job ..

i can’t discuss a great deal of this in an open forum .. but .. trust me .. if you simply can’t leve without peanut butter .. buy a machine and make your own at home …

Try flushing your cache, history and temp files. It sounds like IE is going into the cache rather than pulling a new copy of the header down from the website. It’s one of those stupid accelerator tricks that web browsers use.

the browser I use, (ie 7) does not see your link at the top of the tool bar, I use that to navigate to oxcown, wheel, and I want to use it to get to your place but you are not up there in this browser, now maybe it’s my settings, I have increased my font size but I know your link appears on my mobile browser

anyway I am hoping you can get the administrator to write that top tool bar to be in two lines or something like that so it appears on my screen

see you tomorow

It’s a simple matter of having the will-power to do it. Back in the day, the test would involve taking a sample, plating it and conducting media tests to type the bacteria if anything grew out. It’s much easier today — we can develop antibody (ELISA) tests to almost anything. So use a microarray and test to see which spot light up. Then you know what is growing there.

If it’s growing pathogens, grind it up into cattle feed. Beats h*** out of feeding them cow parts!

I go and speak to the manger and leave. The first thing I do when I go to a new restaurant is check the bathroom out. It’s a very telling sign about the priorities of the establishment.

There also should be incentives for ill employees not to come to work when ill

In fact, almost every rule and every company has DIS-incentives for people to not come to work when ill.

The simple fact that when I began to work for a living in the ’70’s, I nearly always had ten days of sick time (paid!), but in my last job had only 5 days, it’s obvious to me that incentives are going the other way.

And of course, minimum wage jobs of all kinds are the ones most likely to have zero paid days off, and most likely to fire workers for missing work, no matter how ill they were.
The default, and it gets worse the lower on the job totem pole you are, attitude of employers seems to be that workers who “call in sick” are always faking. It’s time for that to stop.
BTW, anyone know the current status of Hilda Solis’s confirmation to Dept of Labor?

Integrity is what you do when no one is looking. Corporate interests have proven over and over again that they lack integrity. It’s time for that to change.