USDA's Food Safety and Inspection Service is pointing holiday cooks to its free bilingual "Ask Karen" app, a searchable database of nearly 1,300 consumer questions, and the Meat and Poultry Hotline, open by phone 8 a.m. to 2 p.m. ET on Thanksgiving Day.
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USDA Offers Tips to Keep Food Safe as Severe Weather Sweeps across Nation
USDA's Food Safety and Inspection Service issued advice for keeping refrigerated and frozen food safe after storms and tornadoes cut power across the Midwest, pointing to its Meat and Poultry Hotline, the Ask Karen app and a power-outage guide.
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Foodborne Illness: Especially Dangerous for the Vulnerable
FDA epidemiologist Karl Klontz names those most at risk from foodborne illness: infants under one, older adults, people with weakened immune systems and pregnant women. CDC counted 1,651 listeriosis cases from 2009-2011, at least 90 percent in those groups, and 21 percent died.
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Tornado: What can you do to protect yourself?
Preparedness guidance: build an emergency kit and a family communications plan, and watch for a dark greenish sky, large hail, a low rotating cloud or a freight-train roar. Shelter in a basement or an interior room on the lowest floor, and protect your head from flying debris.
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Remember Food Safety During Memorial Day Cookouts
USDA's Food Safety and Inspection Service offers grilling tips ahead of Memorial Day, urging four steps: clean, separate, cook and chill. It warns that prepared salads, chicken, burgers and hotdogs can carry pathogens, riskiest for young children, the elderly and pregnant women.
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Eating Outdoors, Handling Food Safely - FDA advisory
An FDA advisory on eating outdoors: bacteria multiply quickly in summer heat, so wash hands and utensils, keep cold food at 40F or below in a cooler with ice or gel packs, pack drinks and perishables separately, and open the cooler as little as possible.
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Consumer Alert: Tips to Keep Food Safe in a Weather Emergency
FSIS issued food safety guidance for Alabama and Mississippi residents facing power outages after tornadoes: keep appliance thermometers in the refrigerator at 40 F or below and freezer at 0 F or below, group and pre-freeze food, store it clear of flood water, and keep coolers and ice ready.
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CDC Advisory: Avian Flu (H7N9) in China
WHO announced on April 1 that H7N9 avian influenza had infected people in four Chinese provinces, the first time the virus has appeared in humans. CDC advises travelers to wash hands, avoid animals and live bird markets, and eat fully cooked food; travel is not restricted.
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USDA Consumer Alert: Keeping Food Safe During an Emergency
Ahead of a major Northeast snowstorm, USDA's Food Safety and Inspection Service urged consumers to prepare for outages: keep appliance thermometers in the fridge and freezer, hold them at 40F and 0F, freeze water and gel packs, and line up coolers and block ice in advance.
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USDA Offers Food Safety Tips as Winter Storm Strikes Central U.S., Moves Eastward
USDA's Food Safety and Inspection Service issued guidance as a winter storm moved east, urging households to keep appliance thermometers, coolers and plenty of ice so perishable food stays below 40 degrees during outages. Under Secretary Elisabeth Hagen's rule: when in doubt, throw it out.
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Spring Celebrations: Handling Leftovers
USDA's Diane Van answers Meat and Poultry Hotline callers on holiday leftovers: cooked ham keeps only 3 to 4 days in the refrigerator despite being cured, and cooked brisket the same, or 2 to 3 months in the freezer for best quality.
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FDA alert: Cancer-causing agent found in Japanese rapid weight loss diet pills yellow and green
The FDA warns that Japan Rapid Weight Loss Diet Pills, sold on websites including Amazon and distributed by Xiushentang, contain phenolphthalein, a laxative the National Toxicology Program named a carcinogen in 2010. Consumers should stop using the pills and throw them away.
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Spring Celebrations: What’s on Your Menu?
A USDA food safety specialist answers spring holiday questions: check the label for how long a ham keeps, keep dyed eggs refrigerated until hiding time since more than two hours out lets bacteria multiply, and serve cold Passover dishes straight from the refrigerator on beds of ice.
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Got Raw Milk? Don’t Drink It
A CDC veterinarian summarizes a study of 14 years of US dairy outbreaks: raw milk caused far more outbreaks than pasteurized milk, those outbreaks tended to be more severe, younger people were hit harder, and states allowing raw milk sales had more of them.
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Daylight savings time 2012
Since 2007, US daylight time has run from the second Sunday in March to the first Sunday in November, as set by the Energy Policy Act of 2005. Hawaii and most of Arizona do not observe it. A table gives start and end dates from 2006 to 2015, plus a history back to the 1918 Standard Time Act.
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Consumers to Receive Timely Food Safety Alerts Through State Twitter Feeds
USDA's Food Safety and Inspection Service launched state-specific Twitter feeds carrying recalls of meat, poultry and processed egg products, plus advice on keeping food safe during severe weather. Eight states went live first, with feeds for all states and territories due in early March.
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Key Nutrition Information for Most Popular Meat and Poultry Products Coming to a Store Near You
Under a new FSIS rule, packages of ground or chopped meat and poultry now carry nutrition facts panels, and 40 popular whole raw cuts must show calorie, total fat and saturated fat figures on the label or on display in the store.
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Be a Food Safe Office Mate: Help Keep the Office Refrigerator Clean
An FDA food-safety educator's tips for the shared office refrigerator: keep it at 40F or below and the freezer at 0F, check with appliance thermometers, throw out perishables weekly, treat cooked leftovers as good for four days, and wipe spills immediately.
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