{"id":67562,"date":"2006-11-08T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2006-11-08T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news-draft\/uncategorized\/food-safety-issues-from-e-coli-to-home-cooking-the-topic-of-uri-web-chat-nov-21\/"},"modified":"2006-11-08T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2006-11-08T00:00:00","slug":"food-safety-issues-from-e-coli-to-home-cooking-the-topic-of-uri-web-chat-nov-21","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/2006\/11\/food-safety-issues-from-e-coli-to-home-cooking-the-topic-of-uri-web-chat-nov-21\/","title":{"rendered":"Food safety issues from E. coli to home cooking the topic of URI web chat Nov. 21"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"press-release-import\">\n\t\tKINGSTON, R.I. \u2013 November 8, 2006 \u2013 While it was spinach growers that made the news this fall for contaminating their crops with E. coli, everyone who cooks at home should also be aware of how to avoid food-borne illnesses.  With that in mind \u2013 and the holiday feast season upon us \u2013 the University of Rhode Island is hosting an online chat with food safety expert Martha Patnoad on Tuesday, Nov. 21 at 1 p.m.<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n\tPatnoad, who has been affiliated with the URI Cooperative Extension for three decaedes, has developed food safety education programs for farmers, cafeteria workers,  outdoor festival volunteers and many others. She is a member of the National Environmental Health Association and is a Certified Food Professional. In 2003, she received the University\u2019s Outstanding Outreach Award.<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\nA service of the URI Division of University Advancement\u2019s electronic communications program, online chats are free and open to the public and are accessible through the URI website.<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\nTo enter the chat, go to http:\/\/advance.uri.edu\/chats for instructions. Participants may submit questions in advance, but the chat will not begin until the scheduled date and time. Thirty minutes is the total time allotted for the chat. A full transcript will be posted to the University\u2019s website once the chat has been completed. Questions about web chats should be directed to the URI Publications Office at 401-874-2075.<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\nURI\u2019s online chats, which began in September 2004, have featured question and answer sessions with such alumni as Tom Mulligan, Los Angeles Times senior correspondent discussing the Iraq war, and Academy Award-winning filmmaker Ross Kaufman talking about the making of Born into Brothels, as well as with URI administrators, faculty and coaches.<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\nThe chats are made possible through the cooperation of the URI Athletics Department and College Sports Online, hosts of the GoRhody.com web site.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>KINGSTON, R.I. \u2013 November 8, 2006 \u2013 While it was spinach growers that made the news this fall for contaminating their crops with E. coli, everyone who cooks at home should also be aware of how to avoid food-borne illnesses. With that in mind \u2013 and the holiday feast season upon us \u2013 the University [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-67562","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-archives"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67562","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=67562"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67562\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=67562"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=67562"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=67562"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}