…and both you and your children might eat something that could send you to the hospital – or worse yet, the morgue.
According to the Center for Disease Control, 75 million people in the United States become sick each year from something they eat… 300,000 of them check into the hospital… and 5,000 of them die.
You MUST understand and know about food safety in your home, restaurant, or grocery store and what issues can make you or your family very sick!
Ever think about the food you eat in your favorite restaurant? Ever think about the people preparing that food? Ever wonder if the food you cook in your own kitchen or on your own grill could make you or your family sick?
I work with restaurants, hotels, and grocery stores to improve and maintain their food safety. Often I’m asked, “What should I look for so I’ll know my food and my children’s food is safe?”
For food to help you and not hurt you, it must be handled properly. How do you know you’re doing that? How can you be sure others are?
Welcome to Food-Safety-and-You.com. Our desire is to teach you how to ensure that your family will stay healthy at the dinner table… or at the drive-in. Food safety is not only about trusting your restaurants to do the right thing; food safety is about knowing what signs to look for that could be dangerous.
When you think of food poisoning, you think of chicken or beef, right? You might need to open your mind to the top 10 Riskiest Foods that causes 40% of all food borne illness outbreaks.
Grocery store food safety starts with the managers and employees in the store, but your observations can help you make a good decision if you should be shopping there.
Every day you have to worry about the safety of your food... learning and keeping up to date on the current news and articles on food safety can give you the firepower to keep your food safe...
Proper hand washing is one of the most important part of food safety, both in the home and in the restaurants. However, it is often one of the most important thing that we forget about!
Food safety with sliced melons is not something that the average person thinks about (it’s a fruit, not chicken, right?), but understanding how they’re able to make you sick.
Food safety at your house starts with your selections when food shopping at the grocery store, the farmers’ market, or on the phone calling for delivery.
Norovirus has a simple cause: poor hand washing and personal hygiene by food-handling employees. Spread by person-to-person contact, it has created outbreaks on cruise ships and hospitals worldwide.
Mice, rats, and other rodents are looking for two things: a place to live and food to eat. If you give them both, they will enjoy living in your home or building.