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Preparing Safe Meals
New Year's Food Safety Refresher
This year how about resolving to improve your food safety habits? More
Cool Soup Safely
Winter is a great time to make a large kettle of soup to enjoy for lunches or quick evening meals. Preparing a large batch of soup can present a food safety challenge: cooling! More
Holidays
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The Twelve Food Safety Mistakes of the Season
Avoid these twelve common unsafe food handling practices at holiday gatherings.
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Holiday Food Safety Myths
Common food handling myths including being aware of the “danger zone,” raw eggs, and safe cooking temperatures.
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Holiday Party Food Safety Tips
A holiday buffet may be the perfect environment to cause a foodborne illness.
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Tips for Changing Traditional Holiday Food Handling
Tips for cooking turkeys and pies; and preventing foodborne illness
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Food Safety Gifts
Food safety tools for holiday gifts such as thermometers, colanders, cutting boards, and kitchen timers
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Beware of Unsafe Ways to Cook Turkey
Popular turkey cooking methods that are unsafe, including brown paper bag, trash bag, slow-cooking overnight, and turducken
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Prevent the Spread of Norovirus During the Holidays
Prevention strategies, how to clean and sanitize, serving tips
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Is Your Homemade Food Gift Safe to Eat?
How to create preserved homemade gifts including bread, cake, mincemeat, jams and jellies, and chocolate sauce; and testing them for safety
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Mailing Food Gifts
Types of foods that mail best; tips for wrapping and cushioning foods for mailing
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Safety of Hard Cooked Eggs for Dyeing
Eggs are a perishable food and need to be handled accordingly
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Are Green Eggs and Ham Safe to Eat?
Safety of eating green eggs; safety of eating green ham; and preventing foodborne illness from ham
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New Year's Food Safety Refresher
New Year's resolutions often focus on weight loss and exercise. This year how about resolving to improve your food safety habits?
At the Office
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Break Room and Refrigerator Policy
Implement a weekly cleaning schedule to keep food (and co-workers) safe (23 K PDF)
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Break Room and Refrigerator Cleaning Schedule
Break room and refrigerator/freezer cleaning duties, space to fill in names (17 K PDF)
Other Meal Preparation
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Slow Cookers and Food Safety
Test your slow cooker for accuracy, safe temperatures and foods for a slow cooker
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Food: How Safe is Safe?
Understanding food hazards and risk, accepting risk, assuring relative food safety
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Are Molds on Foods Dangerous?
Tips for controlling and removing mold in your refrigerator.
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Making Safe Baby Food
Babies are more vulnerable to bacteria than older children and adults.
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A Quick Consumer Guide to Safe Food Handling
How to handle food from grocery store to storing leftovers to prevent foodborne illness
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Safe Cooking Temperatures
Measure these internal temperatures with a food thermometer.
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Tailgating Tips
Tips for safely preparing and grilling food for tailgating
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Grilling
Everything you need to know to grill safely.
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Cutting Boards for Food
What kind of cutting boards to use, tips for preventing germs on cutting boards
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Follow package instructions when cooking frozen foods
Foodborne illness in frozen foods; preventing salmonella poisoning from frozen convenience foods
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Keeping Food Cold When the Power is Out
Using a fridge or freezer to keep food cold when the power is out
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Organic Food Labeling
Audio and text versions, what the various phrases on labels mean
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Packing the Cooler for a Road Trip
How to prevent foodborne illness when packing a cooler
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Power Outages: Keep Food Safe
What to do during and after an outage, what food can be refrozen
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Preparing Food Without Power
Available methods, no-cook suggestions, keeping surfaces and utensils clean
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Using a Food Thermometer
Covers oven-proof dial thermometers, dial thermometers, digital thermometers, checking accuracy
