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Title: A Recipe For Food Safety Success---Spanish Version (Una Receta para Seguridad de Alimentos)	Rating:  Recommended with Reservations
Producer/Publisher: J.J. Keller & Associates, Inc.
Summary:  The video provides a basic coverage of food safety dubbed in Spanish. It is a good resource for instructors who are trying to teach food safety basics to a Spanish audience. Handouts would help reinforce the topics if they were provided with the video.
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Title: A Soup Kitchen Worker's Guide to Food Safety---Food Code Edition	Rating:  Recommended
Producer/Publisher: Cornell University
Summary:  This pamphlet would be a good introduction to someone just starting out in a food kitchen of any sort. However, further instruction and follow-up would be needed.
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Title: All Hands on Deck: Food Service Professionals	Rating:  Recommended with Reservations
Producer/Publisher: Brevis Corporation
Summary:  While attempting to be humorous, the concept potentially obscures the video's important message for adult audiences. This video could have a potential use for an elementary school audience (without the section quoting from the FDA Model Food Code) and possibly for inexperienced food workers.
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Title: All Hands on Deck: Young People	Rating:  Recommended
Producer/Publisher: Brevis Corporation
Summary:  This video is entertaining, creative, and gets its message across. It covers topics at the correct speed and depth for its audience. The handwashing promotion is especially good. Although, the educational aspect of this video would be better served if there were instructions and aides for the instructor.
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Title: All Washed Up	Rating:  Recommended with Reservations
Producer/Publisher: Childrens Healthcare of Atlanta
Summary:  This video is fun and engaging for a younger audience, but requires an instructor's guide to incorporate the handwashing message into a classroom setting, as well as putting into perspective the 'fear of germs' message.
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Title: Ask Sofia Safe About Food Safety	Rating:  Recommended with Reservations
Producer/Publisher: KNB Productions
Summary:  This video is useful to consumers and high school home economics classes. It provides basic knowledge, but does not include some very important food safety regulations and hazards. The points that were made were not explained very well, and overall it was lacking quality material.
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Title: BAC ATTACK! How Our School Fought BAC for Food Safety and Activity and Experiment Guide	Rating:  Recommended
Producer/Publisher: Partnership for Food Safety Education
Summary:  This is a good interactive educational tool for food safety. The information is up-to-date and the format is fun and offers a lot of opportunities for interactive learning. Since there is so much information, it may need to be viewed multiple times or in short segments.
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Title: Be Safe Around Food	Rating:  Highly Recommended
Producer/Publisher: AGC/United Learning and KNB Productions
Summary:
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Title: Buddy Bear's Handwashing Troubles	Rating:  Recommended with Reservations
Producer/Publisher: Marjorie T. Cooke, Brevis Corporation
Summary:  While this book does offer a good summary of handwashing techniques and possible consequences of not washing your hands, it is presented in a way that may be overwhelming to a small child. Children 5 and over would benefit more from the story. Constant references to interactive Brevis products makes it hard for this piece to stand alone.
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Title: BUGS: Innovative Commercial Kitchen Pest Control for the Professional	Rating:  Not Recommended
Producer/Publisher: The Clorox Company
Summary:  The video is a commercial for Maxforce Bait and offers little in technical pest control training. Valid information that is presented is lost in the attempt at humor and gross commercialization. It is not recommended because of the commercial nature of the presentation.
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Title: Cold is Cool: School Milk Handling Workshop	Rating:  Highly Recommended
Producer/Publisher: National Dairy Council
Summary:  This is an excellent training tool for milk safety. The video and Leader Guide covers all aspects of milk safety for institutional food service workers.
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Title: Cooking for Groups: A Volunteer's Guide to Food Safety	Rating:  Recommended with Reservations
Producer/Publisher: USDA Food Safety and Inspection Service
Summary:  A good, general, easy-to-read and understand booklet. It can suffice as an introduction to the correct mindset (attention to diligence) when used within appropriate context by the intended target audience. It contains many good simple recommendations that exceed Food Code requirements to error on the "safe side." There are some key components that are completely omitted or insufficiently emphasized, which may be risky to rely on individual judgment calls, such as in regards to not amply itemizing and detailing rapid cooling techniques and time/temperature windows. Although, it is designed to offer helpful recommendations and GENERAL guidance for intended audience with a simple "rule-of-thumb" safety margin approach.
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Title: Creating Informed Citizens For Tomorrow's Food Safety Decisions	Rating:  Recommended with Reservations
Producer/Publisher: Cooperatvie Extension, Colorado State University, Department of Food Science and Human Nutrition
Summary:  This manual is extensive in nature and provides a great foundation for not only food safety, but also other health related topics that are important. There are plenty of ideas given in each section of the manual for instructors to keep their students interested in the topics at hand. Although, the manual needs to be updated so the material can be used currently.
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Title: Detective Mike Robe's Fantastic Journey, A Food Safety & Quality Program for Head Start Preschoolers	Rating:  Recommended
Producer/Publisher: University of Rhode Island, Department of Food Science and Nutrition, Cooperative Extension
Summary:  This curriculum is a good summary of bacterial growth and food safety for young children. There are many activities for the children to reinforce the material as well as to keep interest up, and even information for parents.
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Title: Fast Plants, Fast Food---How Safe? Bacterial Contamination of Food	Rating:  Recommended with Reservations
Producer/Publisher: Penn State College of Agricultural Sciences, Cooperative Extension
Summary:  The manual and videos are a valuable addition to a class environment. A variety of sources come together to create a solid package. The practical application from this material is very attainable. Although there are some concerns with the Dirty Dining video. It could use additional cassette labeling, a proper introduction, intermediate training space, and references. Another concern is the material was published in 1996, and the current Food Code was not revised until 2001. Overall, the scope of the material can be managed based on instructor needs, and step-by-step detail is provided so that efficient delivery is possible.
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Title: Focus on Food Safety	Rating:  Recommended
Producer/Publisher: Kansas Department of Health and Environment
Summary:  The material accomplished its goal, which was to focus on the safety of food.
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Title: Food Fear	Rating:  Recommended
Producer/Publisher: City of Richardson
Summary:  This is a good basic educational tool for reaching upper elementary students, high school students, and young food service workers. It would not appeal to a mixed-age audience. Even though the material is designed to stand alone, understanding of the subject matter could be greatly enhanced with supplemental material.
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Title: Food Handling is a Risky Business: Training Module	Rating:  Recommended
Producer/Publisher: University of Massachusetts Extension Nutrition Education Program
Summary:  A good basic training module that targets specific audiences and succeeds in providing good training resources and plans for general participants as well as trainers. Overall, the material is well presented and is compliant with the 1999 Food Code, but could be updated to comply with 2001 Food Code.
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Title: Food Safety Can Be Fun!	Rating:  Not Recommended
Producer/Publisher: Ontario Agri-Food Education Inc. & Ontario Ministry of Agriculture, Food and Rural Affairs
Summary:  The negative connotations in this video alone are enough to not recommend it for educational purposes. The educational content provided is unfocused, unclear, and unorganized. The instructor's guide could be used alone as a class teaching tool.
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Title: Food Safety Certification Program---Costco Wholesale	Rating:  Recommended
Producer/Publisher: Costco Wholesale
Summary:  The material is very easy to understand and allows the student to participate. This product is recommended because the main principles of food safety are very easy to understand, remember, and are succinct.
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Title: Food Safety Certification Training---Training Achievement Program Series	Rating:  Highly Recommended
Producer/Publisher: Training Achievement Program
Summary:  This is an excellent program because it provides all the necessary information for the Certified Food Safety Professional (CFSP) exam. It also updates and informs the student in a positive manner. Although, there is a lot of information, so it can be time consuming.
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Title: Food Safety Education Community Service Learning Curriculum: A Program Using the Community...	Rating:  Recommended
Producer/Publisher: University of Rhode Island Cooperative Extension and University of Vermont Extension
Summary:  This food safety education manual provides concrete examples in an easy-to-follow format, and does an excellent job of addressing major food safety issues in a manner that can reach pre-school through high school students.
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Title: Food Safety Management Principles, 3rd edition	Rating:  Highly Recommended
Producer/Publisher: NEHA Food Safety Training
Summary:  The training material offers a good basic food safety overview. It is presented in an easy-to-read format and allows for individuals or classes to pace themselves. The text would be an excellent resource and highlights food code changes.
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Title: Food Safety: Eggciting Safety Facts	Rating:  Recommended
Producer/Publisher: CEV Multimedia, Inc.
Summary:  Overall, the video was of appropriate time, twenty (20) minutes. Keeping the video this length was necessary so that the audience did not lose interest. The CD was nice, so that the quizzes could be printed out and the answers were also available. Additional activity suggestions for the instructor to perform with the students, would have helped the learning experience. The simplicity of the materials would most likely ease in the ability for educators to use the materials.
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Title: Food Safety: Fish and Shellfish Safety	Rating:  Recommended
Producer/Publisher: CEV Multimedia
Summary:  Production uses a variety of reputable sources to increase user knowledge. Very useful and applicable in a wide range of settings.
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Title: Food Safety: Fruit Facts and Veggie Vitals	Rating:  Recommended
Producer/Publisher: CEV Multimedia, Ltd.
Summary:  A lot of good information is provided in the material, but the pace at which it is given is a little too fast. Questions are asked in the video, but the answers are not provided as part of the video presentation. There should be time provided to discuss what learners have viewed and for the teacher to clarify any misunderstandings viewers might have. The video should have defined pauses for this purpose. It should be noted that a supplemental CD-ROM is provided with some answers to the quizzes. However, this would only supplement the information if the teacher had a CD-ROM drive available.
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Title: Food Safety: Protecting At-Risk Populations	Rating:  Recommended
Producer/Publisher: CEV Multimedia
Summary:  The video is designed at a pace that is comfortable for the participants and allows for an instructor to bring home the importance of food safety and test their knowledge base of the topic.
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Title: Food Safety: What You Don't Know Can Hurt You	Rating:  Recommended
Producer/Publisher: Meridian Education Corporation
Summary:  This CD-ROM presents basic food safety information in a clear, easily understood format. While the price is prohibitive for most households for this type of item, it would be worthwhile to have in a library where both students and parents could have access.
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Title: Foodborne Disease Outbreak Investigation---Botulism Argentina	Rating:  Highly Recommended
Producer/Publisher: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
Summary:  This is a valuable educational tool in the field of epidemiology. While this CD-ROM would be difficult to utilize in a classroom setting, it is excellent for independent study.
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Title: Germs On Their Fingers	Rating:  Recommended
Producer/Publisher: Wendy Wakefield Ferrin
Summary:  While the product placement in this curriculum is unfortunate, it still manages to convey the information intended. A re-configured CD-ROM would make it more valuable to everyone.
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Title: Good Food and Play Make a Balanced Day! Interactive Tool for Children and Their Parents! (ages 7-12)	Rating:  Highly Recommended
Producer/Publisher: Mat-Su School District and Midwest Nutrition
Summary:  The CD-ROM interactive tool is a wonderful learning experience for any type of educational setting or at home. A workbook included with the CD-ROM would help. This material is fun, easy, and very informational for all age groups.
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Title: Great Food Safe Food	Rating:  Highly Recommended
Producer/Publisher: Marriott International
Summary:  Once the materials are acquired, presenting this program would be an effective and economically feasible method of food handling education. The journey into food service through the eyes of a new employee is a wonderful blend of entertainment and education, and should be positively received by all audiences.
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Title: HACCP for Food Service: Video Training Series	Rating:  Recommended
Producer/Publisher: La Vella Food Specialists
Summary:  A basic food service training tool for food service personnel. The information presented is accurate.
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Title: HACCP: A Basic Understanding	Rating:  Recommended
Producer/Publisher: CEV Multimedia
Summary:  The video would assist in teaching the basic principles behind HACCP, as a preventive production control system with mutipile uses in the food safety industry.
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Title: International Food Safety Icons	Rating:  Recommended
Producer/Publisher: International Association for Food Protection
Summary:  International Food Safety Icons CD-ROM provides an easily recognized symbol that conveys a specific food safety message. There are 11 icons provided in the CD-ROM. The icons are very useful. They may reach the stage of traffic signs and easily understood by everyone worldwide.
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Title: Keyword Index and Quick Reference Guide to the 2001 FDA Model Food Code	Rating:  Highly Recommended
Producer/Publisher: Pearson Education, Inc.,/Prentice Hall
Summary:  Overall, the Keyword Index and Quick Reference Guide to the 2001 FDA Model Food Code is an excellent resource for persons seeking information from the 2001 FDA Model Food Code. Considering the amount of information included in the Food Code, it is beneficial to the reader/user to have access to a quick reference guide such as this.
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Title: Kitchen Safety Game	Rating:  Recommended with Reservations
Producer/Publisher: Learning Zone
Summary:  This game would be a good review of food and kitchen safety for upper elementary, middle school, and some high school students. An additional curriculum would be needed before playing the game.
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Title: Manual de seguridad en los alimentos (Food Safety Handbook for Foodservice Employees)	Rating:  Recommended
Producer/Publisher: J.J. Keller & Associates, Inc.
Summary:  It is a good print source of basic entry-level information of how to work with food for Spanish speaking employees.
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Title: Milo and the Invisible World of Germs	Rating:  Highly Recommended
Producer/Publisher: Georgia-Pacific Health Smart Institute and Fink Productions
Summary:  This video is an effective tool for helping younger children learn the importance of washing their hands. The message is kept simple and entertaining for young viewers.
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Title: Quick Reference to Food Safety & Sanitation	Rating:  Recommended
Producer/Publisher: Pearson Education, Inc./Prentice Hall
Summary:  Quick Reference to Food Safety and Sanitation is exactly that. It explains the important basic facts of food sanitation. The material is presented in a simple and appealing fashion.
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Title: Safe Food Crew: Food Safety Training Modules & Public Recognition Program	Rating:  Recommended
Producer/Publisher: Madison Department of Public Health
Summary:  The Safe Food Crew program should serve Wisconsin businesses well. The reviewer believes the educational expectations by the program writers may need to be lowered a little, but over all it is on the right track. Users outside of Wisconsin will have to adjust the lessons to meet the requirements of their own states.
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Title: Science and our Food Supply: Investigating Food Safety from Farm to Table (& Dr. X video)	Rating:  Highly Recommended
Producer/Publisher: FDA, Center for Food Safety and Applied Nutrition and National Science Teacher's Association
Summary:  The FDA and National Science Teachers Association have produced a solid curriculum resource for both middle and high school level students that provides a solid food safety learning experience. From a REHS perspective and working primarily with adult learners, this material has a wealth of information that could also be used in food safety training for adults. Overall, this material is very worthwhile. It presents accurate information in a clear format as well as providing interactive learning.
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Title: Serving It Safe, Second Edition	Rating:  Highly Recommended
Producer/Publisher: National Food Service Management Institute and USDA, Food and Nutrition Service
Summary:  This material is recommended particularly for school foodservice professionals. The curriculum was designed for this audience and contains activities and information particularly appropriate for food safety in this setting. This material is highly recommended for this audience, but may not be appropriate for other audiences.
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Title: Sink a Germ	Rating:  Recommended
Producer/Publisher: BREVIS Corporation
Summary:  The video is presented as being for ALL health care workers, but it seems more appropriate for non-professional positions and not geared toward professional staff, such as nurses and physicians. Also, the video is 17 years old and advocates using alcohol-based hand wipes and gels as an equivalent replacement for traditional handwashing. Overall, the minimal negatives outweigh the general positives, and the video is accurate and appropriate.
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Title: SOS: Safe or Sorry, Teaching Food Safety	Rating:  Recommended with Reservations
Producer/Publisher: Minnesota Department of Health
Summary:  The Safe or Sorry Curriculum touts this video as a humorous review/reinforcement of food safety. The idea of a skit allowing viewers to test their observation skills and knowledge is a laudable one, but the execution falls short. Rather than design a script that addresses the students and topics intelligently, this video relies on unrealistic scenarios, shock value, and bathroom humor to deliver their messages on food safety. In their attempt to infuse humor, the producers lathered on so many unrealistic scenarios and inundated the script with so many bathroom references that the tasteless “mistakes” come at you at such a rate that they obscure the real lessons. In this video, the educational values upheld in the previous lessons disappear into crude renderings of kitchen mistakes. The pervasive vulgarity of the situations depicted has no redeeming educational value. And the lessons involved rely on such outrageously gross mistakes that they make a mockery of the whole education process. The dialogue at the end of the video that reveals one character lamenting her failed social life is puzzling as to exactly what lesson the video is trying to teach. Safe or Sorry utilizes this video production as the review for its curriculum and proudly touts it as being shown on Cable TV and performed on stage in the Mall of America without realizing its scatological pervasiveness. The value the producers place on this video in the Safe or Sorry program debases the veracity of the rest of the SOS curriculum package. The producers can restore the credibility of the SOS program by divorcing itself from this version of the Crazy Cooks in the Kitchen video and returning to the original script for a responsible re-write.
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Title: Soup Up Food Safety In Your Kitchen---Final Report	Rating:  Recommended
Producer/Publisher: Cornell University
Summary:  Overall, this train-the-trainer packet is comprehensive and could add significantly to the knowledge of soup kitchen workers. It addresses issues common and unique to the soup kitchen arena.
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Title: STREET HACCP	Rating:  Highly Recommended
Producer/Publisher: Florida Division of Hotels & Restaurants, Department of Business & Prof. Regulation
Summary:  A thorough and accurate review of HACCP principles, practices, and programs.
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Title: The Food Safety Handbook	Rating:  Highly Recommended
Producer/Publisher: ASI Food Safety Consultants and Highfield Publications
Summary:  It is a very excellent and useful pamphlet. It is easy to follow, short, and to the point without leaving out pertinent information.
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Title: The Food Safety Information Handbook	Rating:  Highly Recommended
Producer/Publisher: Oryx Press
Summary:  The Food Safety Information Handbook is a tremendous resource which is presented in a way that can be easily understood and used by a broad audience. The book briefly touches on a wide variety of subjects, including foodborne illness, food irradiation, regulations, genetically engineered foods, drinking water, and pesticides, and food allergies (and much more). The material presented serves as an introduction to food safety in general and allows or directs the reader to pursue additional research materials through the resources listed in the later chapters. This book is a useful tool and is recommended for a wide audience, including high school students, food industry professional, practicing environmental health professionals, school administrators (including parents, teachers), and academia.
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Title: The Power of Choice: Helping Youth Make Healthy Eating and Fitness Decisions, A Leader's Guide	Rating:  Highly Recommended
Producer/Publisher: United States Department of Agriculture, Department of Health and Human Services
Summary:  This educational material is a great resource for helping youth make healthy food and lifestyle choices. It provides a series of activities, discussions, and recipes and teaches basic nutrition information in a non-judgmental, empowering format.
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Title: The School Food Allergy Program	Rating:  Recommended
Producer/Publisher: The Food Allergy Network
Summary:  The information is easy to read and understand. It is very informative, has good references, such as a newsletter, books, and Web sites. Although an example plan would be a nice addition and information for teen-agers is not included, it is overall very informative.
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Title: Understanding Foodborne Pathogens	Rating:  Recommended
Producer/Publisher: CEV Multimedia
Summary:  This comprehensive video and CD-ROM would greatly benefit someone studying for their Certified Food Safety Professional examination or as part of an extended food safety training program.
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Title: USDA Food Safety Coloring Booklet	Rating:  Recommended
Producer/Publisher: U.S. Department of Agriculture
Summary:  The coloring activities for the children are engaging, and the appearance of the role models is warm and kind. The introductory note to parents should be more concise. Parents would probably prefer fewer words in a bullet format.
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Title: Wash Your Hands	Rating:  Recommended
Producer/Publisher: LWB Company
Summary:  The video is a good training tool to introduce a variety of people to the need for hand washing after use of the restroom facilities and other times when one's hands become soiled. More importantly, it demonstrates how to properly wash hands in a way that is informative as well as being easy to watch.
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Title: Would Your Restaurant Kitchen Pass Inspection?	Rating:  Recommended with Reservations
Producer/Publisher: CEV Multimedia, Ltd.
Summary:  The video provides a short and sweet outline of basic restaurant inspection. It is not meant to be used as a comprehensive training tool and would be more useful as a refresher training or part of a broader education curriculum.
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