Food Safety Focus | Super Bowl Safety

Hello All! 

I hope this message finds all of you and your families safe and well.

This food safety focus will focus on keeping your home team safe during your super bowl party.  

Super Bowl LVI is coming up on Feb 13th and that means a lot of food will be shared with friends and family during the game.  Here are some tips to keep your home team safe:

  • Wash hands for 20 seconds before and after handling raw meat and poultry. Clean hands, surfaces and utensils with soap and warm water before cooking and after contact with raw meat and poultry. Please be sure to sanitize all areas with a mixture of 1 tablespoon of bleach per gallon of water used for cleaning.  Don’t wash your chicken!  That only spreads bacteria and doesn’t remove it from the chicken.  Always keep raw poultry and meats away from ready to eat foods, to reduce cross contamination.
  • Cook Your Food to a Safe Internal Temperature.  Only thorough cooking will kill the bacteria in chicken and raw meats.  When cooking chicken wings, use a food thermometer on several wings to gauge the doneness of the entire batch. If one wing is under 165 F, continue cooking all wings until they reach that safe internal temperature.
  • After food is prepared, keep hot food hot and cold food cold and refrigerate or freeze any perishable food within 2 hours.  Don’t let the food that was put out before the game even started, sit out for the entire game!  Bacteria can grow rapidly in the danger zone between 40°F and 140°F.

Thanks, for all that you do every Day!

Justin

Food Safety Manager

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Author: Trish Metts