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Food Safety
Alert: Salmonella Saintpaul
Information about the Salmonella saintpaul outbreak associated with jalapeno peppers.
July, 2008
Learn more about how food contamination occurs, so that you can prevent foodborne illness.
- Food Safety Basics: Preventing Foodborne Illness
There's a lot you can do to handle and prepare your food safely. Learn what you can do to prepare, serve and store food safely.
Hand Hygiene | Cross Contamination | Don't Prepare Food If You are Ill | Temperatures | Thermometers | Grilling and BBQ Safety | Slow Cooker Safety | Home Canning | Cold Storage | Shelf Storage
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Getting Sick From Food: Foodborne Illness
People can get sick from eating contaminated food. Find out which diseases are spread via food, and what you can do about them.
Causes and Symptoms |
Preventing Foodborne Illness |
Reporting Foodborne Illness |
Restrictions |
Outbreaks |
Statistics |
For Health Professionals
- Food Safety On The Go: Cooking Away From Home
Preparing foods away from home can be tricky. Food safety tips and information for preparing food for groups, bringing leftovers or take-out home, cooking when traveling, and packing lunches.
Buffets, Picnics, and Cooking for Groups | Summer Food Safety | Food Safety While Boating, Camping and Hiking | Food Safety When You Are Traveling | Packing Lunches and Take-out/Leftovers
- Handling and Preparing Specific Foods
Food safety tips and information for handling specific foods like eggs, home made ice cream, wild game meats, turkey, hamburger, fish, and fruits and vegetables.
Eggs | Home Made Ice Cream | Wild Game Meat | Turkey | Hamburger | Fish and Seafood | Fruits and vegetables | Raw Milk
- Food Safety in Emergencies
Did you know that a flood, fire, national disaster, or the loss of power from high winds, snow, or ice could jeopardize the safety of your food? Knowing how to determine if food is safe and how to keep food safe will help minimize the potential loss of food and reduce the risk of foodborne illness.
Food safety in any emergency | Fires | Flooding | Power outages | For businesses | Food supply safety and security
- Safe Food is Good Business: Food Safety in
Restaurants, Cafes, School Kitchens, and other Food and Beverage Establishments
Food and beverage establishment licensing and food manager certification, regulations
and the food code, and more about keeping food safe in food and beverage establishments.
Food Manager
Certification | Licensing | Foodworker Illness Awareness | Food Code | PWDU Newsletter
- Teaching Food Safety
Are you teaching food safety to kids? You'll find many resources here to help
you including curricula and tool kits.
Safe or Sorry | Teaching Hand Hygiene
- Irradiation and Pasteurization
Most foodborne illness is caused by bacteria in your food. Irradiation and pasteurization kill the bacteria before you buy the food. Find out how it works and what products you can buy that have been irradiated or pasteurized.
- Food Safety Alerts and Food Recalls
Information on recent food safety alerts, and lists of food product recalls.
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Spotlight
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Agriculture, Health Officials Issue Product Advisory for King Nut Peanut Butter
Product contaminated with Salmonella bacteria was shipped to institutions in Minnesota. MDH News Release: January 9, 2009.
Norovirus Outbreak Prevention and Control
Norovirus in Healthcare Settings –Prevention and Management of Outbreaks (PDF: 2MB/91 slides)
Presentation at 2008 APIC conference on the prevention and management of norovirus in healthcare settings.
Norovirus Infection
Noroviruses are members of a group of viruses called caliciviruses also known previously as “Norwalk-like viruses.” Learn more about Norovirus, how to minimize your risk of acquiring norovirus infection, required reporting information, clinical features, laboratory diagnosis, treatment and more.
Cooking for Groups
Consumer information about preparing and serving food for large groups. Information to help volunteers prepare and serve food safely for large groups such as family reunions, church dinners, and community gatherings.
Foodworker Illness Awareness
Workers who prepare food while experiencing diarrhea and/or vomiting are frequently linked to foodborne illness outbreaks in restaurants and other retail food outlets.
Previous Spotlights
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Frequently Requested
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Grilling and Barbeque
Boating, Camping and Hiking
Norovirus
Preventing Illness Associated with Animal Contact
Handwashing
Cross-Contamination
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