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Food Thermometer Research
Important research prompted this educational campaign. The research underscored the fallibility of traditional
consumer methods for determining when food is "done." Research also shows effective strategies for changing
consumer behavior and encouraging thermometer use.
Research Reports: Food Thermometer Use
A Report of the "Is It
Done Yet?" Social Marketing Campaign To Promote the Use of Food Thermometers (Dec 1, 2005; PDF Only, 1.5MB)
Food Thermometer Use Among Boomburb Family Observational Research Participants (Feb 1, 2005; PDF Only, 801kb)
Focus
Groups to Test Materials for the "Is it DONE yet?" Campaign
(Dec 31, 2004; PDF Only, 1MB) | Appendices
(PDF Only, 2.5 MB)
Evaluation
of Slogans and Concepts for USDA's Food Thermometer Education
Campaign (Feb 24, 2004; PDF Only, MB)
Communications
Guide for Boomburbs Families (Oct 2003; PDF Only)
Food
Thermometer Education Campaign - "Boomburbs" Communications
Concept Testing (Mar 2003; PDF Only)
Thermometer
Usage Messages and Delivery Mechanisms for Parents of Young
Children and Appendices
(Mar 1, 2002; PDF Only)
Final Research Report: A Project to Apply Theories of Social Marketing To the Challenge of Food Thermometer Education In the United States (Dec 21, 2001)
Focus
Groups on Barriers that Limit Consumers' Use of Thermometers
when Cooking Meat and Poultry Products, Phase One (Jan
1998; PDF Only)
USDA Research: Premature Browning of Hamburger
Last Modified:
March 31, 2008
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