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June 9, 2016

Picnic Food Safety Checklist

Planning a safe picnic requires a good amount of preparation. It’s important to make sure you have the essentials packed to take with you. Below is a checklist along with a description on why that item is important to keep your picnic safe. Food Thermometer Cold food needs to be at or below 40° F, […]

WRITTEN BY: Amanda Bohlen, FCS Educator, OSU Extension, Washington County

REVIEWED BY: Dennis DeCamp, FCS Educator, OSU Extension, Scioto County

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SOURCES:

  • http://www.foodsafety.gov/blog/perfectfood.html
  • http://www.fda.gov/Food/ResourcesForYou/Consumers/ucm109899.htm

Categories: Food
Tags: food safety, outdoor cooking, Picnic

June 15, 2015

Be Food Safe at Your Picnic

Are you ready for a picnic? It’s picnic season. With the hot weather and transporting food we need to watch our food safety practices, or food-borne illness may be on our picnic table. Remember the #1 Food Safety rule “Keep hot foods hot and cold foods cold.” Be sure perishable foods (including meats) aren’t kept […]

REVIEWED BY: Susan Zies

Categories: Food
Tags: food safety, grilling, Ice Coolers, Picnic

May 13, 2014

Safe Picnics & Cook-Outs

  Memorial Day Weekend, which traditionally marks the beginning of summer, is almost here and many of you will probably celebrate with picnics and cook-outs. This time of year also marks the re-emergence of some questionable food safety behaviors. If you could simply tuck a refrigerator under one arm and take it with you, there […]

Categories: Food
Tags: contaminated surfaces, cooking, cookout, coolers, cross contamination, food safety, grilling, grilling food, Picnic, Summer cooking, transporting food

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