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Edited by: Mary Schroeder, M.S., R.D. & Pat Kendall, Ph.D., R.D., Colorado State - Winter/Spring 2005

Egg Food Safety

Now that Spring is here, a useful fact sheet for consumers that highlights safety tips for eggs is Welcome to Spring... A Great Time for Eggs! developed by USDA's Partnership for Food Safety Education. For other questions or concerns about eggs, contact the American Egg Board or the Egg Nutrition Center.

Food Safety Fact Sheets

Featured this month are the following food safety consumer Fact Sheets available from USDA/FSIS:

1. Protect Your Baby and Yourself from Listeriosis is a 1-pager for women of child bearing age covering special food safety guidelines during pregnancy.
2. Safe Handling of Take Out Foods is a colorful, consumer-friendly, brochure that provides food safety tips to fit our busy lifestyles.
3. 2005 USDA Food Safety Planner - Throughout this planner (calendar format), you'll find food safety information, ideas, and topics you can use to help you get the word out.

To download PDF versions of these materials, go online and click on the individual fact sheets of interest.

Food Safety Mobile Coming to Denver

The USDA Food Mobile will be in Denver on May 7 and 8, 2005, for the Cinco de Mayo Festival. County Extension agents will be partnering with the Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment to provide food safety education activities during the two day event. If interested in volunteering with this event, please contact Raenette Hamann, with Denver County Health Dept.

"Ask Karen"

USDA's Food Safety Inspection Service (FSIS) now offers a new automated response system featuring "Karen," a virtual representative, to answer consumer food safety questions any time around the clock. Through an extensive database of food safety information, consumers can obtain information about prevention of foodborne illness, as well as the safe handling, preparation, and storage of meat, poultry, and egg products.

Disclaimer: The information available through this Web site is provided as a public service and for educational purposes only. All efforts have been made to ensure the material on this information system is accurate and up to date. However, Colorado State University Extension and SafeFood cannot be held responsible for any circumstances resulting from its use, unavailability, or possible inaccuracy. Also, reference in this Web to any specific commercial products, process, service, manufacturer, or company does not constitute its endorsement or recommendation.