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Food safety - How to protect yourself from the hazards in your food

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Food safety - How to protect yourself from the hazards in your food

Food Safety

Every night on the evening news stories abound about people becoming sick and even dying from eating a meal that any one of us could have had that day. From hamburgers and fruit contaminated with E. Coli, fish infested with pfiesteria to cancer-causing agents in peanut butter and hormones in milk; it seems that everything we eat is bad for us!

But is this really true? And we have to eat something!

These pages provide information from reliable sources (and we quote them and provide links) to help your sort through the hype to make sound choices that balance your tastes and needs against the risks.

If you are looking for information of food safety, how to report food poisoning, how to identify a case of poisoning from e. coli, pfiesteria, salmonella, botulism, or other questions about the safety of your food at home or in a restaurant. You should find your topic in the list below! If not, email us and tell us what you want to seeadded !

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  • News

  • Food safety alerts

  • Food advice - consumer advice

  • U.S. Food Codes and regulations

  • Food safety inspections and compliance

  • Report an illness or product complaint

  • Consumer Advice

  • Kids, teens & educators

  • Senior Citizens

  • Information to help students write reports about food safety issues

  • Food safety when away from home

  • FAQs - Frequently asked food safety questions

  • Foodborne pathogens (bacteria)

  • Free publications and guides

  • Industry assistance from the government

  • Specific food issues bullet

    Beef

  • Beef / cattle raised on chicken manure

  • Mad Cow Disease

  • Hot dogs & Listeriosis bullet

    Poultry

  • Turkey bullet

    Vegetables

  • E. Coli in vegetables

  • Related topics

  • Federal and state agencies

  • Search the government food safety site

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    Selected Highlights

  • Aflatoxin (peanut butter)

  • Hamburgers (E.coli, mad cow disease)

  • Mad Cow Disease

  • Pfiesteria (fish & shellfish)

  • Turkey safety

  • Wine

  • FDA Announces Public Meetings on Bioengineered Foods October 18, 1999
  • FDA Announces Food Safety Grants October 18, 1999
  • Achievements in Public Health, 1900-1999: Safer and Healthier Foods
  • New Food Safety Information Line for State Food and Public Health Agencies
  • Healthy People 2000: Status Report Food Safety Objectives and Conference Video
  • E. coli in Drinking Water
  • Secretary Shalala Announces a new Food Safety Information Service
  • Food Safety News from CDC / EPA / FSIS / FDA
  • President's Council on Food Safety
  • Partnership for Food Safety Education (Fight BAC!)
  • Food Safety Training and Education Alliance
  • Evaluation of Risks Related to Microbiological Contamination of Ready-to-eat Food by Food Preparation Workers and the Effectiveness of Interventions to Minimize Those Risks
  • Bioengineered Foods: Will They Cause Allergic Reactions?
  • Acidified and Low Acid Canned Foods
  • Keeping Food Safety Surveys Honest
  • FDA Issues Nationwide Public Health Advisory about Contaminated Pet Chews October 1, 1999
  • FDA Enforcement Report
  • FDA Warns about Infant Formula Fraudulently Labeled as Nutramigen in Southern California October 8, 1999
  • Susan Alpert, Ph.D., M.D., Named CFSAN Director of Food Safety
  • FDA Study Finds Possible Link Between Down Syndrome and Lower Maternal Folic Acid Levels September 28, 1999

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