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It's never too early to learn about food safety. Use the resources below to make food safety fun for the children in your school! Be sure to also view Hand Washing Games and Activities for:

Cool Food, Safe Food
European Food Information Council.
Designed for 13-19 year olds, this site lists common food safety errors made in the home and simple precautions that can be taken to prevent foodborne illnesses

Food Detectives Fight BAC!
University of New Mexico Cooperative Extension Service.
This entertaining site for kids ages 8-12 includes songs, activities and arcade-style games. Through playing to learn, youth understand the importance of the 4 key messages in the Fight BAC food safety program.

Food Hygiene Mission Control
Food Standards Agency (United Kindgom).
Food Hygiene Mission Control is an interactive resource for children aged 7 to 14 and their teachers. Through quizzes, games and fact pages it educates young people about food hygiene issues. The teachers’ section contains downloadable activity sheets for further teaching.

Food Safety Lessons
Iowa State University Extension.
These food safety lessons were developed to provide consumers and future consumers with the tools they need to help minimize their risk from harmful pathogens in the food supply.

It's a SNAP
School Network for Absenteeism Prevention
Hands-on initiative for middle schools designed to help keep students in school and learning by improving overall health through promoting clean hands.

Lose A Million Bacteria: The Game
FDA. Center for Food Safety and Applied Nutrition.
Interactive or printer-friendly game based on the popular TV game show, "Who wants to be a Millionaire" whose object is to lose a million bacteria by correctly answering questions about food safety.

Pathogen Tracker Game
Cornell University.
In this detective style game students track an outbreak of Listeria, a foodborne pathogen—from the very first reports of illness to the source of the outbreak at a food production plant. In the process, they receive an introduction to the Pathogen Tracker Database.

Teachers Fight Bac! Your Game Plan for Food Safety
Partnership for Food Safety Education.
Intended for Grades 4-8, this program helps teach food safety in a way that is both easy for the teacher and exciting for students. Using the inquiry approach to learning, the program inspires children to discover the science behind food safety as they experiment, investigate and explore.

The Virtual Bacteria Identification Lab
Howard Hughes Medical Institute.
Fully interactive biomedical laboratory simulations include a bacterial identification lab, a cardiology lab, a neurophysiology lab and a virtual ELISA (Enzyme-Linked Immunosorbent Assay), using human antibodies to diagnose disease.

Last Modified: Jun 19, 2008


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