Food safety is about keeping hands, utensils, and surfaces clean, and separating, cooking, and chilling foods correctly to make sure that what we eat doesn't make us sick.
Sites listed in this category offer information on the kinds of bacteria in foods; the correct temperatures for cooking meats and storing foods; how to wash your hands and why it's important; and keeping foods apart when shopping, storing, preparing, and cooking.
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- Botulism Learn about this rare kind of food poisoning; what it is, symptoms, what the doctor can do, and how to prevent it. From KidsHealth.
- Food Standards Agency: Eat Well Be Well Answers commonly asked food questions, and also offers a menu and quizzes on healthy eating.
- Salmonellosis Learn about what it is, what causes it, the symptoms, how to prevent it, and what the doctor does.