Long summer days and warm nights are the perfect setting for picnics, road trips, music festivals … and foodborne illness. Why the connection? As the temperatures rise, so do the occasions for serving food outdoors. If basic rules for handing food are not part of the...
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Cross Your T’s for Food Safety in the Kitchen
During a recent CBS Sunday Morning show, one of the segments highlighted the “Do’s and Don’ts” of the upcoming Thanksgiving holiday. Based on a 2015 Thanksgiving Day power outage in Seattle when folks had to pull turkeys out of ovens before they were fully cooked, the...
Food Safety Is Everyone’s Responsibility – Make It a Daily Routine
Wash hands, wear a mask, put on gloves, sanitize cart, bag your own groceries, drop groceries in sun room, wipe down boxes, wash hands, repackage produce, wash hands, store items in refrigerator or pantry. These are all steps I, along with others, took to ensure...