Food Safety

Cold Storage Chart
USDA. Food Safety and Inspection Service; DHHS. FDA. Center for Food Safety and Applied Nutrition.
Chart of safe refrigeration and freezing times and temperatures.

Cook It! Cooking Temperatures
USDA. Food Safety and Inspection Service; DHHS. FDA. Center for Food Safety and Applied Nutrition.
Chart of recommended cooking temperatures.

Fight BAC! For Educators
Partnership for Food Safety Education.
Features successful food safety education programs and campaigns, information on the four steps to keeping food safe (clean, separate, cook, chill), safe seasonal cooking, and more.

Focus On: Food Product Dating
USDA. Food Safety and Inspection Service.
Provides information on types of dates, types of foods that are dated, safety after date expires, can codes, and storage times.

Food Safety Consumer Website

Food Saftey and Inspection Service (FSIS)

Food Safety During Pregnancy

Food Safety Educational Resources
DHHS. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
Provides links to educational resources on the web for nutrition educators.

Food Safety for Children

Food Safety for Food Banks and Food Pantries

Food Safety for Seniors

Food Thermometers and Food Temperature Indicators
USDA. Food Safety and Inspection Service
Provides information on proper temperatures, how to use a thermometer and thermometer types.

Handwashing Links
DHHS. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
Links to several pages on handwashing, mostly on the CDC web site

National Center for Home Food Preservation

Safe Recipe Checklist (PDF 82 KB)
Iowa State University Extension.
Describes how to evaluate recipes for food safety before trying them. Includes information on using slow cookers safely, homemade noodles and ice cream, and cooking meat properly.