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Home Food Safety

Home Food Safety

Food safety in your home kitchen is just as important as food safety in restaurant kitchens. In fact, as much as 60% of food borne illness may be from home kitchens.

People can get sick when they eat food that contain germs. Food borne illnesses are most dangerous for children, the elderly, and those with weakened immune systems, but they can affect anyone.

Some types of foods are more likely than other foods to grow germs that can make us sick. They can grow easily at room temperatures in these foods. Foods which are moist and contain protein are the most potentially hazardous. This includes meat, fish, poultry, dairy, eggs, cooked rice, cooked dry beans, tofu, cooked potatoes, and cut melons. Unpasteurized juices are also a risk.

Recommended kitchen procedures to help reduce the risk of food borne-illness:

1) Wash your hands.

2) Keep foods safe from cross-contamination

3) Cool and heat (and reheat) foods properly

4) Heat foods to the proper temperature.