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Handling and Preparing Specific Foods

  • Specific Foods Home
  • Frozen Chicken
  • Eggs
  • Home Made Ice Cream
  • Wild Game
  • Turkey
  • Hamburger
  • Fish and Seafood
  • Fruits and vegetables
  • Raw Milk
  • Irradiation and Pasteurization

Food Safety

  • Food Safety Home
  • Clean & Separate
  • Cook & Chill
  • Storing & Preserving
  • Cooking Away From Home
  • Handling and Preparing Specific Foods
  • Food Safety in Emergencies
  • Alerts and Recalls
  • Print Materials

More Food Safety

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651-201-5000
Food Safety Comment Form

Contact Info

Minnesota Department of Health
651-201-5000
Food Safety Comment Form

Frozen Chicken

Handle raw frozen chicken—including frozen meals, entrees, and appetizers—the same way you handle raw fresh chicken to prevent foodborne illness:

  1. Read the package and cooking instructions carefully.
  2. Follow cooking instructions exactly as written.
  3. Use a food thermometer to measure the internal temperature of meat can be used to ensure that it is cooked sufficiently to kill bacteria.
    Ground beef should be cooked to an internal temperature of 160°F.
  4. Clean and disinfect any surfaces and utensils that touched the raw product.
  5. Wash your hands with soap and water after handling the raw product.

CDC's the raw story as an image. See below for link to PDF

CDC: THE RAW STORY Some frozen chicken entrees look like they’re cooked—but they’re not! (PDF)
 

  • CDC Archive: 2015 Outbreaks of Salmonella Enteritidis Infections Linked to Raw, Frozen, Stuffed Chicken Entrees

     
  • Don't Wash Your Chicken!
    Washing chicken, even with a slow stream of water, can cause dangerous germs to splash from the raw meat onto other surfaces. These germs can then get onto other foods, like lettuce, that will not be cooked to kill germs before eating. Cooking meats to the recommended safe temperature will kill all germs present; meats do not need to be washed. 
     
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Last Updated: 05/17/2024

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