Comments on: Keep on (Pupusa) Trucking http://www.washingtoncitypaper.com/blogs/citydesk/2008/06/20/keep-on-pupusa-trucking/ D.C. News, Politics, Media, Arts, and More Tue, 24 Nov 2009 22:21:59 -0500 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.1 hourly 1 By: elizabeth http://www.washingtoncitypaper.com/blogs/citydesk/2008/06/20/keep-on-pupusa-trucking/comment-page-1/#comment-179457 elizabeth Fri, 20 Jun 2008 21:57:30 +0000 http://www.washingtoncitypaper.com/blogs/citydesk/2008/06/20/keep-on-pupusa-trucking/#comment-179457 Great story on WAMU today. Apparently, Frontera #1, the pupusa cart you visited on-air, makes some really yummy-sounding food. I wondered: Is food safety an issue in the PG Co. street food ban, or is is completely motivated by local competitiveness and quality-of-life issues? I know you can get food poisoning just as easily inside a theoretically hygienic restaurant that has passed health inspections, but laws are in place that impose specific food safety handling regulations on foodservice establishments. I know there are far too few health inspectors (at least in DC) so that safe-handling regulation enforcement can far from comprehensive, but are there any food safety regulations or inspections for street food operations (AKA pupusa cards, etc.)? If so, do they differ in various jurisdictions? Great story on WAMU today. Apparently, Frontera #1, the pupusa cart you visited on-air, makes some really yummy-sounding food. I wondered: Is food safety an issue in the PG Co. street food ban, or is is completely motivated by local competitiveness and quality-of-life issues? I know you can get food poisoning just as easily inside a theoretically hygienic restaurant that has passed health inspections, but laws are in place that impose specific food safety handling regulations on foodservice establishments. I know there are far too few health inspectors (at least in DC) so that safe-handling regulation enforcement can far from comprehensive, but are there any food safety regulations or inspections for street food operations (AKA pupusa cards, etc.)? If so, do they differ in various jurisdictions?

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