Common Safety Mistakes That Can Cause Foodborne Illness

 By Neill Abayon

• Tasting food to see if it’s spoiled — you can’t taste, smell, or see bacteria that cause food poisoning.

• Putting cooked meat on a plate that previously held raw meat — germs from the raw meat will transfer to the cooked meat.

• Thawing food on the counter — germs multiply faster at room temperature.

• Letting food cool before refrigerating it — it only takes an hour or two for bacteria to multiply.

• Eating raw cookie dough or other foods containing uncooked eggs — uncooked eggs can contain Salmonella or other harmful bacteria.

• Marinating meat, poultry, or seafood on the counter — again, room temperature is ideal for growing bacteria.

• Transferring raw meat or poultry marinade onto cooked foods — bacteria from the raw meat will contaminate the cooked food.

• Undercooking meat, poultry, seafood, or eggs.

• Not washing your hands often enough during food preparation.

The impostant thing is, washing your hands and keeping your kitchen clean are important — but cooking poultry to 165 degrees is the best way to kill bacteria and avoid foodborne illness.

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Fatal Indian school meal contained concentrated pesticide

Posted By Neill Abayon

PATNA, India (Reuters) - The free school lunch that killed 23 Indian children last week was contaminated with concentrated pesticide which is not widely available, the district magistrate overseeing the police investigation told Reuters on Sunday.

The children fell ill within minutes of eating a meal of rice and potato curry in their one-room school in Bihar state on Tuesday, vomiting and convulsing with stomach cramps.

The deaths sparked protests in Bihar. The lunch was part of India's Mid-Day Meal Scheme that covers 120 million children and aims to tackle malnutrition and encourage school attendance. It had already drawn widespread complaints over food safety.

An initial forensic investigation found that the meal had been prepared with cooking oil that contained monocrotophos, an organophosphorus compound that is used as an agricultural pesticide, Ravindra Kumar, a senior police official, told reporters on Saturday.

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