Fast Food Safety

TB found this while surfing yesterday evening:

‘Dateline’ hidden cameras investigate cleanliness of America’s top 10 fast food chains

Fast food: It’s served fast and you eat it fast, maybe too fast to notice the restaurant is a little dirty. The fact is that no one has ever done a national survey looking at the cleanliness of fast food chains — until now. Recently, we took our Dateline cameras undercover for the first-ever investigation of whether America’s top 10 fast food chains are clean and safe. How did your favorite restaurant do?

This is one of the few areas that I think require more regulation and oversight. More frequent unannounced inspections combined with genuinely painful sanctions for frequent violators would help.

I was also shocked to learn that not all states require food handler's training and licensure. While I have no data (I'm still looking), I suspect that states that do have fewer problems.