U of G food safety prof provides expert opinion on Listeria to Ontario media
In light of recent Listeria outbreaks affecting plant-based milks, meat products and waffles, Dr. Lawrence Goodridge has has been interviewed by CBC, CTV and City News.
Goodridge is the director of the Canadian Research Institute for Food Safety and professor in the Department of Food Science at the University of Guelph. His Alliance-funded work includes an evaluation of modern meat inspection regulation standards.
On CBC's the Morning Edition Kitchener-Waterloo, he spoke about how Listeria can contiminate food, including its ability to grow at low temperatures.
For City News, he commented on the difficulties of tracing outbreaks.
On CTV News, he discussed whether outbreaks are on the rise.