It is highly recommended that all supermarkets and stores that sell eggs across the European continent recall their eggs. Apparently the insecticide Fipronil was possibly mixed with a cleaning fluid that is commonly used in the chicken coops, and therefore could present a health risk to any and all European residents who consume eggs. It is also said that it can be very unlikely that any health risk is part of this. It should be known that this accident happened but don’t fear for your life.

Key Takeaways:

• Millions of eggs were removed from European shelves, due to an incident of insecticide contamination.
• Fipronil, the insecticide, is believed to have been inadvertently mixed with a cleaning product regularly used to keep chicken coops clean.
• While the Food Standards Agency does not expect the eggs to constitute a health risk, food items made with the eggs, like egg salad sandwiches, could.

“Some of the contaminated egg products will have had a short shelf life and will have already been consumed”

Read more: http://www.bighospitality.co.uk/Business/Restaurants-urged-to-check-their-eggs-as-Fipronil-scandal-worsens

This article is about unpaid ‘trial shift’ mostly in the food service industry. It includes information about why some people see unpaid trial shifts as unfair. It goes on to explain that an unpaid trial shift is less like getting someone to work for free and more like an addition to the interview process where you get to see the applicants skills, or lack thereof, at work. Also having an additional person there working for free may seem great in theory but that person is completely untrained so your typical workers are training the new person on top of keeping up w/their average work demands.

Key Takeaways:

• A common course of action, in the restaurant industry, having a potential employee take on shift on a trial basis, has come under fire lately.
• The negative press, spotlighted in part by chef, Mark Greenaway, comes as some deem the practice as exploitative.
• Popular assessment centers, which also involve unpaid labor and the opportunity for hire-hopefuls to gain skills, have not drawn attack, thus far.

“There is no legal issue in asking someone to conduct a trial shift as part of the interview process.”

Read more: http://www.bighospitality.co.uk/People/Trial-shifts-to-pay-or-not-to-pay