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Food Talk is a quarterly newsletter designed to help food managers convey vital food safety information to their food workers. It is a ready-made education and outreach tool used by health departments and businesses with food handling staff. The content reflects the recommended practices in the latest edition of the FDA model Food Code.

Do You Know How to Handle Produce?

Cut leafy greens are listed as potentially hazardous foods in the 2009 edition of the Food and Drug Administration’s model Food Code. But what exactly are cut leafy greens and how should you handle them? (Read more...)

Would You Know What to Do?

Would you know what to do if your food establishment lost power today? Loss of electric power is the most frequent type of emergency in kitchens, so you need to have a plan for dealing with outages—and for natural disasters such as floods and major storms. (Read more...)

Take the Emergency Quiz

See if you can pick the best answers to our Emergency Quiz. But be careful, some questions may seem to have more than one correct answer.

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Sanitation tips for food handlers!

Presents food safety using easy-to-understand language and graphics!

A teaching tool for food managers and health departments!