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SAFEFOOD NEWS - Spring 1997 - Vol. 1, No. 3

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New Survey Identifies Food Safety Risk-takers

Who is most likely to eat undercooked hamburgers? And, who is most likely to stick with the safer, thoroughly cooked burger?

According to preliminary results from a new survey, the hamburger "risk-taker" is most likely to be a middle-aged, middle-income, educated white man. The play-it-safe person? Someone over 60. This type of information is now being gleaned from a growing body of surveillance data about food safety behaviors.

Closer to home, 38 percent of men surveyed in Colorado said they eat undercooked hamburger. That's compared to only 13 percent of men surveyed in Washington state, which experienced the brunt of the 1993 E. coli O157:H7 outbreak attributed to undercooked hamburgers.

Source: USDA, Food Safety and Inspection Service. The Food Safety Educator, Vol. 1 (3), Fall 1996.

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