September is National Food Safety Education Month!
According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, every year,
an estimated 1 in 6 Americans (or 48 million people) get sick, 128,000
are hospitalized, and 3,000 die from eating contaminated food.
Anyone can get sick from a foodborne illness (also called food poisoning).
Learn how to take steps to help prevent food poisoning, and show others how to keep food safe.
This month let’s commit to handling food safely at home and building safe recipes!
Ways you can participate:
With more food being delivered than ever before, how you handle delivered foods is more important than ever! Learn how to “prep yourself” to keep great delivered foods safe.
Research shows that adding food safety instructions to recipes improves food safety behaviors at home.
Food safety starts at home! Check out these free resources to help keep families healthy while cooking at home.
Research suggests that when kids develop cooking skills while young, it may have long-term benefits in both health and nutrition into adulthood.