Visit the
"Bad Bug Book" and links about
national
food safety programs.
Also see www.foodsafety.gov.
Call the FDA's food information line at 1-888-SAFEFOOD (1-888-723-3366). Recorded information 24 hours a day, every day. FDA public affairs specialists are available to answer questions from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Eastern time, Monday through Friday.
Write to the FDA's Center for Food Safety and Applied Nutrition, Consumer Education Staff (HFS-555), 5100 Paint Branch Parkway, College Park, MD 20740.
Order the FDA's food safety video "Dirty Little Secrets: Kitchen Food Safety" for $8.95. Call 202-861-0500 and ask for the duplication department or write to: Interface Video Systems, P.O. Box 57138, Washington, DC 20037.
Visit www.fsis.usda.gov.
Call the USDA's meat and poultry hotline at 1-800-535-4555 (TTY: 1-800-256-7072). Recorded information in English and Spanish 24 hours a day, every day. Staffed 10:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m. Eastern time, Monday through Friday.
Write to USDA, FSIS, Food Safety Education Staff, Room 2932-S, 1400 Independence Ave., S.W., Washington, DC 20250.
Source: Excerpted from FDA Consumer - The Unwelcome Dinner Guest: Preventing Foodborne Illness, Jan.-Feb. 1991; Revised Dec. 1997, Feb. 1999, Oct. 1999, June 2000, July 2002 and March 2003