Wow, click on this link to read what the NY Times ran today. https://webmail.aramark.com/owa/redir.aspx?C=30f679034ec44b6ea87db9528ce77fe0&URL=http%3a%2f%2fwell.blogs.nytimes.com%2f2009%2f11%2f30%2fhow-safe-is-your-chicken-dinner%2f%3fex%3d1275368400%26en%3d0d6d6b5d4fe3b847%26ei%3d5087%26WT.mc_id%3dHL-D-I-NYT-MOD-MOD-M126-ROS-1209-HDR%26WT.mc_ev%3dclick
I am a big proponent of food safety and since I don't know how food was handled before it got to my kitchen I treat it very carefully. Everything in the article is true except nothing was mentioned about one very important thing. Wash your hands. Do this before, during and after handling any food and never touch raw chicken or even it's package and then handle anything else.
Cross contamination is so easy, you touch the package, open the refrigerator, turn on the water and wipe the counter with the same sponge you use to wash the dishes, it looks clean but what may have been on the package is now on everything you touched.
It is scarey to think of food as not being safe and I look at everything before purchase and preperation for my home and where I work. I inspect each item making sure that nothing is at the wrong temperature or damaged and if it is not right refuse it.
Keeping what we eat safe starts before it becomes available to us and product recall is not in our favor. Try this link http://www.fda.gov/Safety/Recalls/default.htm.
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