fightbac.org: Partnership for Food Safety Education (PFSE)

Educating consumers about safe food handling

Fun for Kids

Scrub Club is a fun interactive Web site that teaches children the proper way to wash their hands. Watch a webisode, play a game or sing along to the Scrub Club theme song! Downloadable activity materials for kids and materials for teachers, too!

Go to the Scrub Club website.

Kids, the Food Detectives need your help to fight an enemy...Bacteria!

Play the games, listen to the songs and solve the cases to become a Food Detective!

Go to the Food Detectives website.

Take the FDA's Food Safety Quiz for Kids!

Example question: If you touch raw meat or chicken, before you touch anything else you should...?

Play the BAC! Game

From the Canadian Partnership For Consumer Food Safety Education. First, save the game to your hard drive and then double click the fightbac icon to play.

Bean Bag Toss Game

Coloring Downloads

fightbac.org, the website of the Partnership for Food Safety Education (PFSE), is your resource for Fight BAC! food safety and safe food handling campaign information.

The Partnership for Food Safety Education unites representatives from industry associations, professional societies in food science, nutrition and health consumer groups, the United States Department of Agriculture, the Environmental Protection Agency, the Department of Health and Human Services, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, and the Food and Drug Administration in an important initiative to educate the public about safe food handling practices needed to keep food safe from bacteria and prevent foodborne illness.

Food is safe once it's cooked, no matter how long you leave it out.