The Story of Your Dinner offers you creative tools and messages to frame food safety throughout the chain of prevention — including the important role consumers play when preparing food at home.
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There’s no place for bacteria at your dinner table this holiday season! Children ages 7 and under, as well as pregnant women and elderly people, are at higher risk of food poisoning. Take action to make sure you’re following food safety steps from store to table.
We hope you enjoy The Story of Your Dinner, including the recipes, videos and kids’ activities prepared just for your family!
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Keeping a Clean Scene
We Fight BAC, Inc. of Memphis, Tennessee is a program developed by BAC Fighter Jean Bridges. Her program started as a USDA Summer Food Service Program, providing a daily meal and snack for Memphis’ disadvantaged children.
Latch-key Kids Need the Core Four
During this work, Jean and her team became concerned that the latch-key kids they were serving did not have even the most basic information about safe food handling. These youngsters were often responsible for preparing meals for themselves and siblings and were at great risk of exposing the entire family to foodborne illnesses.
Jean saw a desperate need for basic home food safety education for these kids…
Food Safety Pros Collaborate
Jean’s program now includes a donated 26-foot mobile teaching RV, staffe
d with trained food safety ambassadors (volunteers from the Memphis and Shelby County Health Departments and the Tennessee Food Safety Task Force). She is considering having staff become ServSafe-certified instructors and proctors as a way to help fund the outreach.
It’s All About Food Safety
The objectives of the “We Fight BAC” program are to:
We Fight BAC www.wefightbac.com
USDA Food Safety Education http://1.usa.gov/1tEYVOi
Partnership for Food Safety Education www.fightbac.org
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We Fight 
BAC uses many of the free downloads available on the Partnership for Food Safety Education’s Fight BAC website, as well as those from government food safety education sites. She finds these free materials a valuable addition to her outreach.
Go BAC Fighter Jean! BAC doesn’t have a chance against your energy!
Jennifer Jackson of Anne Arundel County Maryland, Department of Aging and Disabilities, shares a BAC Fighter success story from the Older Americans Month Health and Wellness Fair they attended.
Her department set up a table on food safety which included Chelsea the Chicken, a cantaloupe cleaning demonstration, and their Food Safety Trivia Wheel.
An older couple approached their display and spun the Food Safety Trivia Wheel. Jennifer read their trivia question: “During a summer picnic, how long can food be left out before it needs to be refrigerated or thrown away?” The husband answered and said that he thought food could be left out for six hours!
After explaining the correct answer (found on The Partnership for Food Safety Education’s “Chill” handout), he exclaimed, “So, that’s why we all got sick during that trip to the amusement park!”
It turns out that he and his family planned a trip to an amusement park and packed a cooler of barbecue chicken to eat for lunch. The chicken was left in the cooler all day and no one checked to make sure that the temperature was kept out of the danger zone. After eating the chicken for lunch, everyone in his group suffered a bout of food poisoning. He and his wife told me that they would make sure they packed food safely in the future!
Jennifer Jackson
Assisted Living Program
Anne Arundel County Department of Aging and Disabilities
Annapolis, Maryland
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