SubscribeFood safety and your home: is your refrigerator spoiling your food and making you sick?
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The recent rash of stories about tainted food products has heightened awareness of the need for better food safety and monitoring. While we depend on food makers, growers and producers along with government agencies such as the FDA to keep us safe, we need to also insure that the food we buy is prepared and cared for properly once we leave the market.
According to this story from MSN Health and Fitness, “Food Safety Fears? Look in Your Fridge,” “experts say that it is far more common to get a foodborne illness (food poisoning) from food that has become contaminated in our homes.”
Here are some tips from the story to make sure that you are storing food properly.
- “The temperature inside your refrigerator should be 40ºF or below, and your freezer 0ºF or below. Temperatures beyond this allow harmful bacteria to multiply.” Purchase a refrigerator/freezer thermometer in order to check for proper temperatures.
- If your refrigerator or freezers temperatures often go beyond the safe…
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