Picnic and barbecue season offers lots of opportunities for outdoor fun with family and friends. But these warm weather events also present opportunities for foodborne bacteria to thrive. To protect yourself, your family, and friends from foodborne illness during warm-weather months, safe food handling when eating outdoors is critical. Read on for some simple food safety guidelines for transporting your food to the picnic site, and preparing and serving it safely once you've arrived.
How Do I Know When It's Done?
Use this handy chart as a guide to safe internal temperatures of food when grilling indoors or outdoors.
As summer starts to heat up and temperatures rise, many of us are cranking up the air conditioners to stay cool. It should come as no surprise then that air conditioners use about five percent of all the electricity produced in the U.S., costing homeowners more than $29 billion a year in energy costs.
I see several friends heading on vacation during this time right before schools starts. I am a bit sad we took ours earlier in the summer! The last two years, my family and I have been able to travel with our extended family to new destinations. These trips hold great memories of cousins playing and adults visiting around games!
This newsletter is a bi-monthly publication of K-State Research and Extension and University of Missouri Extension to provide information on safe food preservation
This is a monthly newsletter published by K-State Research and Extension's Rapid Response Center with news articles based on questions received, current food safety issues, or information based on the time of the year.
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