Food Safety
Clean & Separate: Keeping Food Safe At Home
Learn what you can do to keep bacteria from spreading throughout the kitchen onto hands, cutting boards, utensils, counter tops and food. Bacteria can be spread throughout the kitchen and get onto hands, cutting boards, utensils, counter tops and food.
Cook & Chill: Keeping Food Safe At Home
Tips for cooking, chilling, and defrosting foods to help prevent foodborne illness. Use a food thermometer to measure the internal temperature of cooked foods. Refrigerate foods quickly because cold temperatures slow the growth of harmful bacteria.
Storing & Preserving
Tips for storing and preserving food properly to prevent foodborne illness.
Food Safety On The Go
Tips for preparing food for groups, bringing leftovers home, cooking when traveling, and packing lunches.
Handling and Preparing Specific Foods
Information for handling specific foods like eggs, turkey, hamburger, fish, and fruits and vegetables.
Food Safety in Emergencies
Did you know that a national disaster or the loss of power could jeopardize the safety of your food?
Alerts and Food Recalls
A food recall is a voluntary action by a manufacturer or distributor to protect the public from products that may cause health problems or possible death.
Print Materials
Fact sheets, brochures, signs, and other materials that you can print and use.
Getting Sick From Food: Foodborne Illness
Foodborne illness is caused by consuming food or beverages that are contaminated by disease-causing microbes or pathogens. Find out which diseases are spread via food, and what you can do about them.
Food Business Safety
Food safety in restaurants, cafes, and other food and beverage establishments. Including food manager certification, food and beverage establishment licensing, regulations and food code, and more about keeping food safe in food business.
Food Safety in Schools
Food safety information for food workers in schools and childcare, and for parents and caregivers.
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.
- Teaching Food Safety
Are you teaching food safety to kids? You'll find many resources here to help you including curricula and tool kits. - 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.
Foodworker Illness Awareness
Norovirus
Food Safety Alerts and Food Recalls