Disease Fact Sheets

• Campylobacteriosis Fact Sheet
  Answers to frequently asked questions about campylobacteriosis.

• Cryptosporidiosis (Cryptosporidium) Fact Sheet
  Answers to frequently asked questions about cryptosporidiosis.

• E. coli O157:H7 and HUS Fact Sheet
  Answers to frequently asked questions about E. coli O157:H7 and HUS.

• Giardiasis Fact Sheet
  Answers to frequently asked questions about giardia.

• Listeriosis Fact Sheet
  Answers to frequently asked questions about listeriosis.

• Norovirus Fact Sheet
  MDH fact sheet that answers common questions about norovirus. This fact sheet is also avialable in Spanish.

• Salmonellosis Fact Sheet
  Answers to frequently asked questions about salmonellosis.

• Scombroid Fish Poisoning Fact Sheet
  MDH fact sheet that answers common questions about scombroid fish poisoning.

• Shigellosis Fact Sheet
  Answers to frequently asked questions about Shigella.

• Toxoplasmosis Fact Sheet
  MDH fact sheet that answers some common questions about Toxoplasmosis.

• Vibrio Infection Fact Sheet
  MDH fact sheet that answers some common questions about Vibrio Infection.

• Yersinia Fact Sheet
  MDH fact sheet that answers some common questions about Yersinia.

Consumer Food Safety Fact Sheets

• 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.
  
  

• Prevent Cross- Contamination
  Preventing cross-contamination is a key factor in preventing foodborne illness.
  
  

• Safe Grilling
  Fact sheet about handling food safely when grilling.
  
  

• Consumer Tips For Food Safety After Fires
  
  

• Food Safety While Boating, Camping and Hiking
  General rules for outdoor food safety.
  
  

• Food Safety for Summertime
  The number of people who get sick from food poisoning goes up in the summer. Be sure you and your family aren't among them.
  
  

• Coloring Eggs
  Follow these food safety tips for coloring eggs and hiding them for an egg hunt.
  
  

• Turkey: Safe Thawing and Cooking
  Food safety tips for handling, thawing, roasting, storing, and reheating turkey.
  
  

• Refrigerator and Freezer Storage Chart
  This chart gives short, conservative storage times to protect you from food spoilage (what you risk in long refrigeration) and from taste loss (what happens when food is left too long in the freezer).
  
  

• Use Proper Cooking Temperatures to Ensure Safe Food
  
  

Handwashing

• Be A Germ Buster...Wash Your Hands Poster (How-to Hand Washing)
  Six steps to cleaner hands poster that could be hung in restrooms.

• Handwashing with a Nail Brush
  Eight steps to washing hands using a nail brush poster that could be hung in restrooms.

• Hand Hygiene How-To Poster
  This letter sized poster shows the six steps for washing hands with soap and water or two for cleaning with alcohol-based hand sanitizers.

• Clean Your Hands! Poster
  This 11x17 poster shows the six steps for washing hands with soap and water or two for cleaning with alcohol-based hand sanitizers.

Business Food Safety Fact Sheets

• Food Code Fact Sheets: Food Businesses
  Minnesota Food Code, and Minnesota food safety for businesses fact sheets.

Illness Awareness Materials

• Employee Illness Decision Guide for Food Establishment Managers
  Use this tool to determine if a worker with an undiagnosed illness can spread it through food and should be restricted or excluded from work.
  
  

• Keep Yourself and Your Guests/Consumers Safe: Foodworker Illness Awareness Posters
  These posters provide a simple message for all persons working in the food handling trade.
  
  

Teaching Food Safety

• SOS Curriculum
  Download or view the Safe or Sorry curriculum for teaching food safety.
  
  • Other Hand Washing Curriculum
    
    

• Safe or Sorry (SOS) Activity Sheets
  Activity sheets from the SOS consumer food safety curriculum.
  
  

• Safe or Sorry (SOS) Pre and Post Test
  Pre and post test from the SOS consumer food safety curriculum.