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National Food Safety Education Month® 2008
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Food Safety Tips for Smart Food Shoppers
Is it Done Yet?
Ordering "Smart" When Eating Out
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Food Safety Tips for Smart Food Shoppers
- Check "Sell-By" date
- Put raw meat, poultry or seafood in plastic bags
- Buy only pasteurized milk, cheese, dairy products, and juices
- When buying eggs:
- Purchase refrigerated shell eggs
- If your recipe calls for raw eggs, purchase pasteurized, refrigerated liquid eggs
- Don't buy food displayed in unsafe or unclean conditions
Is It Done Yet?
You can't tell by looking. Use a food thermometer to be sure.
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| 145 °F | 145 °F | 160 °F | 160 °F | 160 °F | 165 °F | 165 °F |
Ordering "Smart" When Eating Out
Choose:
- Hard or processed cheeses. Soft cheeses only if made from pasteurized milk.
- Fully cooked smoked fish or seafood.
- Hot dogs reheated to steaming hot. If the hot dogs are served cold or lukewarm, ask to have the hot dogs reheated until steaming, or else choose something else.
- Grilled sandwiches in which the meat or poultry is heated until steaming.
- Fully cooked fish that is firm and flaky.
- Fully cooked eggs with firm yolk and whites.
Avoid:
- Cheese made from unpasteurized milk.
- Raw or undercooked seafood.
- Cold hot dogs.
- Sandwiches with cold deli or luncheon meat.
- Raw or undercooked fish, such as sushi or sashimi.
- Soft-boiled or "over-easy" eggs, as the yolks are not fully cooked.
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