Nina McClelland, PhD

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The National Sanitation Foundation (now called NSF International) was a grand idea of three profs at the University of Michigan.  Drs. Walter Snyder, Henry Vaughan, and Nathan Sinai established the concept at the School of Public Health. The goal was to create national standards for food safety and sanitation- as opposed to the piecemeal state approach that then obtained.  By 1967, it became a non-profit entity.  (I’ll discuss this more below.)

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Rosh Chodesh Elul (this time it’s the First of Elul)

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This is the second day of  Rosh Chodesh Elul,  a  minor holiday.   The first (yesterday) was the anniversary of my eldest daughter’s bat mitzva. (I won’t say how many years!)   Mazel tov, Shosh! The second day of the holiday (today) is  the 23th anniversary (called a Yahrzeit) of the death of my mom.

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Rosh Chodesh Elul- Day 1

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Listen… Do you want to know a secret?

No, I am not channeling one of my favorites songs from the Beatles. Today is the Hebrew birthday of my eldest.   (The conventional calendar event is 3 days from now.) Of course, we use the time a baby breathes its first, but Shoshana took way more than a day from the time her mother’s water broke to enter into the world.

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