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This is pretty disingenuous: "That course is basic, with lessons like “bathe daily” and “strawberries aren’t supposed to be white and fuzzy, that’s mold.” " Pa
by mhb 4y ago
This is pretty disingenuous:
"That course is basic, with lessons like “bathe daily” and “strawberries aren’t supposed to be white and fuzzy, that’s mold.” "
Part of the course includes time and temperature safety requirements which I don't think are obvious or intuitive to most people who are being employed as food handlers. Who should pay the $15 for the training is another issue.
From: https://www.servsafe.com/access/SS/Catalog/ProductDetail/SSECT6 https://www.servsafe.com/access/SS/Catalog/ProductDetail/SSE...
Covers five key areas:
Basic Food Safety
Personal Hygiene
Cross-Contamination & Allergens
Time and Temperature
Cleaning and Sanitation
- pessimizer 4y agoThis list is not evidence that the course is not basic. The word "basic" is the first word on the list.
- mhb 4y agoTFA starts out with a straw man, suggesting that there's no value in a $15 food safety course because what it teaches is trivial and obvious - like what a moldy strawberry looks like. The conclusion which they are suggesting is that this $15 is a fig leaf for funding an organization not in the employees' interest. In fact, the course teaches many things that are not common knowledge and which are important for food preparation - specifically the times and temperatures at which food must be kept in order to minimize the culture of dangerous bacteria. Maybe the Times would prefer that food workers be taught this important information about food safety by some other organization but trivializing the actual information is a bad faith argument.
- pydry 4y agoIt is about funding the organization that is a lobby group dedicated to pinning wages down. That is literally the issue.