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Safe meals
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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Food safety wheel
A handy refrigerator magnet wheel full of food safety information
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Slow cooker 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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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 refreezed
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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
