Senate passes Taylor’s Maid-Rite amendment
By KEN BLACK, TIMES-REPUBLICANA Senate amendment to a budget bill meant to ensure Taylor's Maid-Rite and other older Maid-Rites can keep their same cooking process in place passed Wednesday.
The measure now goes to the Iowa House where it is also expected to pass. The amendment in the Senate passed on a voice vote, meaning there was no roll call vote so no official tally on who voted yes and no.
Sen. Steve Sodders, D-State Center, said there were some no votes, but he thought those were mainly because of issues related to food safety concerns.
Some senators could have been swayed by a last-minute effort by some groups to sway votes in the name of food safety. Sodders said he understood that Bradley Burt, president and CEO of Maid-Rite Corporation sent a letter to members of the Iowa Legislature saying Taylor's could purchase a roaster for approximately $50 and the issue would be settled.
"You never know what could happen," Sodders said. "But I don't work for the people of the Maid-Rite Corporation. I work for the people of my district."
Another group, Safe Tables Our Priority, also sent a letter to members of the Iowa Legislature, asking them to vote in favor of food safety. Included in the letter was the story of a 14-year-old Iowa girl who died of E. coli bacterium.
The Times-Republican contacted the group and asked if the girl had ever eaten at Taylor's Maid-Rite in the hours or days leading up to the onset of symptoms.
The answer, from Susan Vaughn Grooters, a public health specialist, was non-responsive to that question, but did say "E. coli infections have an incubation period of up to eight days. So, often times when people are made ill it's impossible to track it back to the food that made them sick, unless there is a large outbreak."
The DIA acknowledged in court documents that there was no known incident where a person at Taylor's Maid-Rite came down with a food-borne illness.
The Iowa House will now take up the measure, and that body could have it on the calendar before the end of the week.
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Contact Ken Black at 641-753-6611 or kblack@timesrepublican.com
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mtownres
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03-11-10 9:43 PM
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im having a maidrite for lunch tomorrow!!!
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Billbo
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03-11-10 6:07 PM
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As I've said several times, this is NOT a health issue, and it never was. It's a POLICY issue. Common sense clearly escapes some people and ignorance drags them around like a little pull toy (right, thevoiceofreason?). How sad.
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ihavehadit
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03-11-10 3:47 PM
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I have done a lot of work in numerous restaurant kitchens including hospitals and they are all gross. But I will eat at Taylor's any day.
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concernedcitzen
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03-11-10 2:20 PM
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I rather eat a sandwich at Taylors than any place else in Marshalltown and I intend to keep eating them as long as Taylors is there.
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tallicdeth
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03-11-10 1:49 PM
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No one has ever died from eating Taylor's Maid-Rite's. I've ate there for 25 years, and NEVER been sick from their food, as a matter of fact, I'm going to be having one tomorrow after the protest is over.
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tallicdeth
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03-11-10 1:47 PM
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*****right! About time people realize that this it's about people creating a panacea and just taking it beyond the means that it needs to be.
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Bucktail
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03-11-10 11:30 AM
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You are looking at the 21st century way of handling things. Create a public outcry and get the Government involved. Sad.
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LaMariposa
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03-11-10 10:44 AM
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Alright, voiceofreason, your reasoning is not sound. Taylor's isn't saying they don't personally know anyone who has gotten sick, they're saying they don't know OF anyone who has gotten sick. I don't personally know anyone who served in the Spanish American War, but I know OF people who have. I find it hard to understand how 82 years of a perfect record makes them unsafe? If you watch today's WHO TV 13 special, they show a separator in the cooking well that keeps the fresh meat apart from the cooked meat. It also explains that their cooking and holding temperatures are 50* above health code minimums. Next time I'm in Marshalltown, I'm having a couple celebratory sandwiches, maybe even a malt!
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LaMariposa
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03-11-10 10:35 AM
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This is awesome! Come on, House, don't fail us now!
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thevoiceofreason
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03-11-10 10:11 AM
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Officially never eating there again. Hard to support a business that won't practice safe food preperation just because they feel they aren't entitled to. Using the excuse I've never known anyone who's gotten sick from eating there and turns th other cheek is a dullard. It's like saying I don't know anyone who served in the Spanish American war so it must not have ever happened. GET REAL!
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writingfool
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03-11-10 9:32 AM
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Scorecard: Taylor's Maid-Rite 100 Maid Rite Corporation 0
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herkeye
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03-11-10 12:44 AM
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Don...tell them all to kiss you where the sun doesn't shine. I think I'll go there for lunch today!
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