How do you Keep your Family Safe from Food Poisoning?

Despite a mild case of food poisoning can cause no more than a little diarrhea and nausea for adults, food poisoning may end up being much more serious and perhaps even fatal to children and the elderly. In most healthy adults, food poisoning will result in nothing more than a couple of hours of extreme discomfort due to an immune system that operates on all cylinders.

However, food poisoning occurs in small children or elderly can have devastating consequences ultimately ending in death if treatment is not found immediately.


We tend to think of the possibility of contracting food poisoning until we are in a restaurant. We can suddenly become worried that the person who prepares our food forgot to wash their hands. If food poisoning hit, chances are it will attack in the "safe" limits of our own kitchen.

We can significantly reduce the possibility of food poisoning attack our family, take a good look at the way we treat our food in the kitchen.

For example, you do not store raw, meat thawed in the refrigerator next to other foods it not? For example, you put beef packaged meat in the refrigerator to thaw? If so, you run the risk of meat juice leaks from the beef chain and contaminate other foods like product as it melts. Speaking of your refrigerator, keep the temperature at a constant speed of 40 degrees F and your freezer below 0 degrees F right? Good!

And we've already established that you thaw your meat in the refrigerator, not on the kitchen counter.

When preparing food for the evening meal, I certainly know that you do not use the same cutting tools to prepare their meat as you do with your vegetables, right? Good! It is best to use separate cutting utensils to prepare your meats with and wash these utensils immediately after use, before putting them on the kitchen counter.

It may seem an exaggeration, but you also want to wash your fruits containing shell you throw anyway. Why? When you perform a clean knife through the shell, the knife is the introduction of bacteria into the fruit you will consume.

Always make sure you cook all meat, poultry, seafood and completely. Get a meat thermometer and use it to determine the internal temperature of the meat you will serve.

And always remember, Disinfectant is your friend. Do not be afraid to mix a small solution of bleach and water in a spray bottle and freely use in your kitchen counters and sinks.

Be aware that the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) specifies the "house" bleach. For a strong solution, mix 1 tablespoon of bleach to a quart of soup cold water (add bleach to water no water to bleach). For a weak solution, mix 1 tablespoon of bleach to 1 liter of soup with cold water.