Food Safety
Learn more about how food contamination occurs, so that you can prevent foodborne illness.
- Food Safety Basics: Preventing Foodborne Illness
There's a lot you can do to handle and prepare your food safely. Learn what you can do to prepare, serve and store food safely.
Hand Hygiene | Cross Contamination | Don't Prepare Food If You are Ill | Temperatures | Thermometers | Grilling and BBQ Safety | Slow Cooker Safety | Home Canning | Cold Storage | Shelf Storage
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Getting Sick From Food: Foodborne Illness
People can get sick from eating contaminated food. Find out which diseases are spread via food, and what you can do about them.
Causes and Symptoms | Preventing Foodborne Illness | Reporting Foodborne Illness | Restrictions | Outbreaks | Statistics | For Health Professionals
- Food Safety On The Go: Cooking Away From Home
Preparing foods away from home can be tricky. Food safety tips and information for preparing food for groups, bringing leftovers or take-out home, cooking when traveling, and packing lunches.
Buffets, Picnics, and Cooking for Groups | Summer Food Safety | Food Safety While Boating, Camping and Hiking | Food Safety When You Are Traveling | Packing Lunches and Take-out/Leftovers
- Handling and Preparing Specific Foods
Food safety tips and information for handling specific foods like eggs, home made ice cream, wild game meats, turkey, hamburger, fish, and fruits and vegetables.
Wild Mushrooms | Eggs | Home Made Ice Cream | Wild Game Meat | Turkey | Hamburger | Fish and Seafood | Fruits and vegetables | Raw Milk | Roasts
- Food Safety in Emergencies
Did you know that a flood, fire, national disaster, or the loss of power from high winds, snow, or ice could jeopardize the safety of your food? Knowing how to determine if food is safe and how to keep food safe will help minimize the potential loss of food and reduce the risk of foodborne illness.
Food safety in any emergency | Fires | Flooding | Power outages | For businesses | Food supply safety and security
- Safe Food is Good Business: Food Safety in Restaurants, Cafes, School Kitchens, and other Food and Beverage Establishments
Food and beverage establishment licensing and food manager certification, regulations and the food code, and more about keeping food safe in food and beverage establishments.
Food Manager Certification | Licensing | Food Code | Construction Requirements | Foodworker Illness Awareness | Food Business Fact Sheets | Food Safety for Schools | Interagency Review Council | Food Safety Partnership | PWDU Newsletter
- Teaching Food Safety
Are you teaching food safety to kids? You'll find many resources here to help you including curricula and tool kits.
Safe or Sorry | Teaching Hand Hygiene
- Irradiation and Pasteurization
Most foodborne illness is caused by bacteria in your food. Irradiation and pasteurization kill the bacteria before you buy the food. Find out how it works and what products you can buy that have been irradiated or pasteurized.
- Food Safety Alerts and Food Recalls
Information on recent food safety alerts, and lists of food product recalls.
- Print Materials
Fact sheets, brochures, signs, and other materials that you can print and use.
- Contact Us
Spotlight
Keeping Food Safe During Buffets or Picnics
Buffets or picnics can be a means to transmit disease among your guests if care is not taken in how the food is handled.
Chicks and Ducklings: Salmonella
Those cute little chicks and ducklings can be a great attraction for children this time of year, but they can also be a source of illness, so it's important for those who handle them to take steps to prevent infection.
Food Safety While Boating, Camping and Hiking
General rules for outdoor food safety.
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