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Food Safety Tips for Your Summer Cookouts

Food Safety Tips for Your Summer Cookouts

Cookouts! Family reunions! Barbecues!

Warm weather brings many opportunities to cook and eat outdoors.

Everyone should beware of foods that are likely to contain harmful bacteria or viruses. If you have diabetes or have received a kidney transplant, some foods may be even more risky for you. If you get a foodborne illness, you are more likely to be sicker longer or require hospitalization.

Foods that are likely to cause foodborne illness fall into two categories:

Uncooked – fresh fruits and vegetables;

Some animal products

Four Steps for Safely Handling Food

1. Clean: wash hands and surfaces often

Wash hands in warm soapy water for at least 20 seconds before and after handling food and after using the bathroom, changing diapers, or handling pets

Clean lids of canned goods before opening.

2. Separate: don’t cross-contaminate

Separate raw meat, poultry, seafood, and eggs from other foods in your grocery shopping cart, grocery bags, and in your refrigerator.

Don't reuse marinades used on raw foods unless you first bring them to a boil.

3. Cook: Cook to safe temperatures

Use a food thermometer to measure the internal temperature of cooked foods.

Bring sauces, soups, and gravy to a boil when reheating and heat other leftovers to 165° F.

4. Chill: Refrigerate promptly

Refrigerate or freeze meat, poultry, eggs, seafood, and other perishables within two hours of cooking or buying. Refrigerate within one hour if the temperature outside is higher than 90° F.

Learn More

For more tips on handling food safely, visit http://www.fsis.usda.gov/Food_Safety_Education/Check_Your_Steps/index.asp

For more food safety information for people with diabetes, visit: http://www.fsis.usda.gov/pdf/food_safety_for_diabetics.pdf

If you would like more food safety information for transplant recipients, visit: http://www.fsis.usda.gov/pdf/food_safety_for_transplant_recipients.pdf

If you are living with diabetes or high blood pressure, learn more about healthier eating at http://nkdep.nih.gov/resources/kidney-connection-food-tips-508.pdf.

If you have kidney disease, visit http://nkdep.nih.gov/resources/eating-right-508.pdf to learn more about eating right.

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