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A common respiratory virus that usually causes cold-like symptoms but can cause serious lung infections in babies and older adults. Key takeaways Usua...
Continue Reading : Answers to the Common Questions on RSV (Respiratory Syncytial Virus)
The four core habits US food safety agencies promote at home: clean, separate, cook and chill. Foodborne illness sickens about 48 million people in th...
Continue Reading : The Four Steps to Food Safety: A Practical Checklist
The four core habits US food safety agencies promote at home: clean, separate, cook and chill. Key takeaways Clean: wash hands with soap and water for...
Continue Reading : A Q and A on The Four Steps to Food Safety
The minimum temperatures, measured with a food thermometer, that meat, poultry, seafood and egg dishes need to reach to kill harmful germs. Color is n...
Continue Reading : Safe Internal Cooking Temperatures: A Practical Checklist
The minimum temperatures, measured with a food thermometer, that meat, poultry, seafood and egg dishes need to reach to kill harmful germs. Key takeaw...
Continue Reading : Answers to the Common Questions on Safe Internal Cooking Temperatures
How to cool, store and reheat cooked food so bacteria do not have time to multiply. Bacteria grow fastest between 40°F and 140°F (4°C to 60°C), and so...
Continue Reading : Storing and Reheating Leftovers: The Practical To-Do List
How to cool, store and reheat cooked food so bacteria do not have time to multiply. Key takeaways Refrigerate within: 2 hours of cooking, or 1 hour if...
Continue Reading : Storing and Reheating Leftovers: Common Questions Answered Actions taken by a company, usually with the FDA or USDA, to remove food from sale because it may be contaminated, mislabeled or otherwise unsafe. Rec...
Continue Reading : Food Recalls: A Practical Checklist
Actions taken by a company, usually with the FDA or USDA, to remove food from sale because it may be contaminated, mislabeled or otherwise unsafe. Key...
Continue Reading : Food Recalls: Common Questions Answered Milk from cows, goats, sheep or other animals that has not been pasteurized, a heat treatment that kills harmful germs. Raw milk and products made fro...
Continue Reading : The Raw Milk Checklist: What to Do and What to Skip
Milk from cows, goats, sheep or other animals that has not been pasteurized, a heat treatment that kills harmful germs. Key takeaways What pasteurizat...
Continue Reading : Raw Milk: The Questions People Actually Ask How to buy, store and cook eggs to lower the risk of Salmonella, bacteria that can be present inside eggs that look normal. Salmonella is a common cau...
Continue Reading : Eggs and Salmonella: The Practical To-Do List
How to buy, store and cook eggs to lower the risk of Salmonella, bacteria that can be present inside eggs that look normal. Key takeaways Store eggs a...
Continue Reading : A Q and A on Eggs and Salmonella An infection caused by Listeria bacteria, which can grow in refrigerated ready-to-eat foods. Pregnant people are about 10 times more likely to get lis...
Continue Reading : The Listeria in Pregnancy Checklist: What to Do and What to Skip An infection caused by Listeria bacteria, which can grow in refrigerated ready-to-eat foods. Key takeaways Risk in pregnancy: about 10 times higher th...
Continue Reading : Listeria in Pregnancy: Common Questions Answered