STOP Food Borne Illness

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With all of the food recalls and food borne illnesses popping up in almost every state in the United States, it's always best to start being clean and sanitary at home. Here are some tips that you can do to STOP food borne illnesses during the holidays.

The Senior Policy Coordinator for STOP Foodborne Illness, Darin Detwiler, indicated that 48 million Americans get sick every year because of germs, bacteria and other food connected pathogens. And most Americans think it's not going to hit them, but at least once, it does in one way or another. Detwiler expresses...

STOP's primary concern is keeping pathogens from reaching consumers in the first place, but until that happens, we want to help consumers buy, store and prepare food safely.

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