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Food Safety Education Month

As it’s officially Food Safety Education Month we thought we’d do our bit to prevent foodborne illness with our Top 5 Tips for Safe Food Handling! For Food Safety Education Month we will look at the importance of accurate temperature measurement and why the control of temperature is critical to the quality and safety of your food products. Temperature Control Many foods that are handled in homes, food service and food processing businesses contain harmful bacteria. The growth of such bacteria can easily be controlled by ensuring that food is stored at and cooked to the right temperature. Harmful bacteria can be reduced or destroyed by cooking or reheating to the correct temperature. For Food Safety Education Month we recommend that you create a new or revisit your existing Hazard Analysis and Critical Control Point (HACCP) or food safety plan. … Read more

How to defrost chicken safely

To avoid food poisoning it is essential that food be defrosted safely before use. It is especially important to know how to defrost chicken safely. Why is this step so important? There are two issues to consider when defrosting food, both of which will affect the quality of the food once prepared and, more important, add a risk of food poisoning to whoever eats the food. If you want to know how to defrost chicken and other foods, read on. The first issue is if the food is not properly defrosted. For example, joint of meat or poultry may that is not properly defrosted may appear ready to cook from the outside, but the meat at the may still contain ice crystals. This means that, after following the cooking instructions for a de-frosted piece of meat of that type, the … Read more