Food safety is important for everyone. But, there are a couple of important considerations when you are pregnant. Your immune system changes during pregnancy making you and your unborn child at higher risk for a foodborne illness. Pathogens which are a Potential Risk during Pregnancy PATHOGEN: Listeria Monocytogenes WHAT IS IT? A bacterium found in […]
Food Safety and Pregnancy
WRITTEN BY: Linnette Goard, Field Specialist, Food Safety, Selection, and Management, Family and Consumer Sciences, Ohio State University Extension, goard.1@osu.edu
REVIEWED BY: Joanna Rini, Extension Educator, Family and Consumer Sciences, Ohio State University Extension, rini.41@osu.edu
SOURCES:
- FDA, Food Safety: It’s Especially Important to You, www.fda.gov/Food/Foodborneillnesscontaminants/PeopleAtRisk/ucm312704.htm updated 12/18/2014.