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| General Information |
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| Cold Storage Chart
USDA. Food Safety and Inspection Service; DHHS. FDA. Center for Food Safety and Applied Nutrition.
Chart of safe refrigeration and freezing times and temperatures. |
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| Cook It! Cooking Temperatures
USDA. Food Safety and Inspection Service; DHHS. FDA. Center for Food Safety and Applied Nutrition.
Chart of recommended cooking temperatures. |
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 | Fight BAC! For Educators
Partnership for Food Safety Education.
Features successful food safety education programs and campaigns, information on the four steps to keeping food safe (clean, separate, cook, chill), safe seasonal cooking, and more. |
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| Focus On: Food Product Dating
USDA. Food Safety and Inspection Service.
Provides information on types of dates, types of foods that are dated, safety after date expires, can codes, and storage times. |
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| Types of Food Thermometers
USDA. Food Safety and Inspection Service
Provides information on proper temperatures, how to use a thermometer and thermometer types. |
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| Frequently Asked Questions About Food Safety from the USDA Meat and Poultry Hotline
USDA. Food Safety and Inspection Service
Lists questions that are asked frequently by callers to the Meat and Poultry Hotline. Topics include food storage, preparation and handling, foodborne illness, bacteria and spoilage, keeping food safe during an emergency, and product re calls. Many answers reference a publication available online, including its date of publication or review. |
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 | Handwashing Links
DHHS. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
Links to several pages on handwashing, mostly on the CDC web site |
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| Safe Recipe Checklist (PDF|82 KB)
Iowa State University Extension.
Describes how to evaluate recipes for food safety before trying them. Includes information on using slow cookers safely, homemade noodles and ice cream, and cooking meat properly. |
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| Seasonal Advice: Holidays
FoodSafety.gov
Provides links to US government food safety information for holiday food preparation. |
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| Food Safety During Emergencies |
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| Keeping Food Safe During an Emergency
USDA. Food Safety and Inspection Service.
Includes general guidelines and frequently asked questions. Covers emergency situations such as flood, fire, and power outages and charts on when to save food and when to throw it out. |
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| Food Safety for Children |
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| Children and Microbial Foodborne Illness
USDA. Economic Research Service.
Article focuses on common foodborne illnesses of children. Includes estimated costs of foodborne illness in children by pathogen and the age distribution of foodborne illness by pathogen. |
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| Food Safety for Seniors |
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| Seniors and Food Safety: Preventing Foodborne Illness
DHHS. FDA. Center for Food Safety and Applied Nutrition.
Explains why seniors are at-risk for foodborne illness. Addresses all aspects of food safety for seniors from grocery shopping to eating out and bringing food home. Includes a section on taking care of infants and young children. |
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| Seniors Need Wisdom on Food Safety
USDA. Food Safety and Inspection Service.
Provides guidance for elderly on safe food handling, take-out or delivered foods (hot or cold), cooking temperatures and cold storage. June 2002 |
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 | To Your Health! Food Safety for Seniors
Federal Consumer Information Center.
Addresses special food safety needs of seniors, including how to properly handle complete meals to go and home delivered meals. Also includes basic information on cooking temperatures and food storage. Best if used as background information for the educator or with relevant sections highlighted due to the long length and limited graphics. |
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| Food Safety for Food Banks and Food Pantries |
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| Cooking for Groups: A Volunteer's Guide to Food Safety
USDA. Food Safety and Inspection Service.
Provides guidance for volunteers to prepare and serve food safely for large groups such as family reunions, church dinners, or community gatherings, whether prepared at the volunteer's home and brought to the event, or prepared and serve d at the gathering. Includes information on planning, shopping, storing, preparing, transporting, reheating and serving food. March 2001 |
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 | Donating Foods to Food Pantries and Cupboards
University of Maine Cooperative Extension.
Outlines standards to decide what foods are unsafe to give to food pantries, cupboards and shelters. Addresses cans, glass jars, paperboard cartons, plastic containers, refrigerated foods and frozen foods. |
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| Food Safety During Pregnancy |
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| Food Safety: WIC Works Topics A-Z
USDA. NAL. WIC Works! Resource Sysytem.
Provides links to topics of interest during pregnancy, including seafood safety, safe food handling, and specific pathogens. |
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| Research |
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 | Cooking Ground Beef Safely
USDA. Food Safety and Inspection Service.
Links to research on premature browning of cooked ground beef, consumer use of thermometers to test doneness, and how lighting influences the perception of cooked color of ground beef patties. September, 2002 |
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| Consumer Research and Focus Group Testing
USDA. Food Safety and Inspection Service.
Provides numerous links to reports on consumer research pertaining to thermometer use, various food safety education messages and delivery messages. June, 2002 |
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| Food Safety Research Database
USDA. NAL. Food Safety Research Information Office.
Check the "Category" box and select "Education and Training" from the drop down menu to search for research projects examining food safety education, training and risk communication. |
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| Online Tools |
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| Food Safety Videos and Podcasts
USDA. Food Safety and Inspection Service.
View the various food safety and inspection multimedia files available from the Food Safety and Inspection Service, including streaming videos and audio files, podcasts, and video news releases. |
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 | Safe Food It's Your Job Too
Iowa State University Extension.
A series of four food safety lessons designed to help consumers and future consumers understand their role in keeping food safe. |
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| We Wish You Well -- Food Safety
Oregon State University Extension Family & Community Development.
This learning module deals with how to keep food safe and to prevent foodborne illness. Topics include: Food Contamination, Who's at Risk? and Basic Rules. |
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Last Modified: Oct 15, 2009 |
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