Fight Bac!
Bulk Food Buying During Coronavirus
By Shelley Feist, Executive Director, The Partnership for Food Safety Education As of this writing you, along with 90 percent of your fellow Americans, are under stay-at-home orders due to the coronavirus pandemic. The orders are in place to minimize physical contact between people…
Take a Fresh Look at Frozen Foods this Holiday Season
Dr. Donna Garren, Senior Vice President of Regulatory and Technical Affairs, Frozen Food Foundation In honor of the holiday season, the Frozen Food Foundation invites you to take a fresh look at frozen foods and follow the four easy steps in the Story of…
Hy-Vee Shoppers “Caught” in the Act of Health
Members of the McLean County Health Department’s employee-comprised marketing committee are serious about raising awareness around public health. The committee publicly launched a summer program in their hometown of Bloomington, Illinois, focused on publicaly recognizing the individual choices people make every day that, taken…
Planning Tips
Invite guests, asking everyone to RSVP before the event so you know how much Find out if your guests have special dietary requirements. Make sure you have enough tables, chairs, glassware and dinnerware or make arrangements to borrow or purchase Decide on the menu…
Handling Ingredients
Our Holiday meal favorites are foods made from scratch! Here are guidelines for the safe handling of a few of the ingredients that go into your holiday dishes. Foodborne illness can strike anyone. But If you are preparing foods for people who are at a higher…
Take-Out Sanity
Busy, busy, busy. Multi-tasking Americans have a love affair with take-out foods, heat and eat entrees and other meal items they can pick up at a restaurant or grocery store on their way home. Some foods are hot and some are cold when purchased….
Halloween food safety how-to
You didn’t invite them, but BAC and his germy friends, the 10 Least Wanted Pathogens, might show up at your Halloween bash whether you like it or not. Your best defense against a food fright? Learn how to recognize these invisible fiends and fight them…
Retailers
We enjoy one of the safest supplies of fresh produce in the world. But that doesn’t mean there aren’t risks. Eating contaminated produce (or fruit and vegetable juices made from contaminated produce) can lead to food poisoning. Educate customers to become ProducePros and give…
BAC Fighters
Tasteless, colorless and odorless—some microorganisms found in raw fresh foods, including fresh fruits and vegetables, can cause food poisoning. Food poisoning disproportionately affects our most vulnerable populations—including young children, older adults, pregnant women and people with weakened immune systems. There are simple things consumers…
