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Check Your Steps!
Follow four simple steps and you can help keep your family safe from food poisoning at home.
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FSIS offers fact sheets and booklets on a wide variety of food safety topics, for a variety of audiences.
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More than 48 million cases of foodborne illness occur each year in the U.S. Follow four easy steps —
Clean, Separate, Cook, and Chill — to help your family Be Food Safe. Find fact sheets, audio, video, educational materials, and more.
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Do you have questions about safe food handling or the prevention of foodborne illness? Ask Karen, our "virtual representative," and get your answer immediately online.
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Get information about recalls and public health alerts that involve meat, poultry, or processed egg products.
Receive email updates when recalls are issued. Use additional recall links
to find out about recalls of other types of products.
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Call or email the USDA Meat and Poultry Hotline (1-888-MPHotline) to get information on safe
food storage, handling, and preparation product dating and labeling, and much more. The hotline helps and supports educators
and communicators with innovative educational materials.
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Find out what to do and who to contact if you have a complaint or concern about food product.
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Page offers publications and food safety activities especially for children developed by FSIS and its food safety partners.
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View FSIS food safety videos and news clips. Subscribe to podcasts or access
USDA's gateway to TV and radio news features and recorded webcasts.
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Download educational graphics (Be Food Safe, Fight BAC!®, Thermy, USDA Food Safety Mobile, and other educational programs)
or link to other USDA resources.
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Last Modified:
August 10, 2012
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