Ten Things I Learned at NEHA AEC 2007

I just got back from NEHA AEC 2007, and I learned several things:

1. Strict liability is a slam dunk
2. Don't dig your for your own oysters on Sanibel Island.
3. For some mysterious reason, Casinos don't like coffee.
4. Sanitarians are very passionate about their jobs.
   
5. Never give a toy salmonella to a Sanitarian -- particularly in a restaurant.
6. Most Sanitarians don't want to get up before the sun does. If they do - they're probably in food protection.
   
7. If the Words "Marler-Clark" and "will you be an expert witness?" are in the same conversation- Run!
8. I knew EH was the Rodney Dangerfields of Food service, but we're the Orphans of Public Health too!
9. If we got as much money as blame, we'd all have water activity meters in our pockets!
10. Most of us are a shoestring budgets, but want to do a lot more.
    

#10 on that list has intrigued me for the last several days. So I'm going to do something about it.

No I'm not going to give every EH department a million dollar grant.

I'm on a budget just like everyone else. But sharing wisdom on how to do the job of environmental health in the most cost effective way is even more important for a consultant like me than all you regulators out there.

Hence this blog. Let's share.

Every once in a while I'll share some of my experience from sixteen years running around just about anything that serves food, and some of the tricks and ideas I use to get the job done.

I hope you join me.