Food+Safety+Websites

[] [] - 7 ways to practice food safety at the store [] - general information about food safety issues [] - general information on food safety [|http://www.cdc.gov/foodsafety/prevention.html#justforkids] – Center for Disease Control’s (CDC) homepage for kids [] - general information on food safety from the US Department of Agriculture (USDA)
 * Posted by Karima: Food safety websites - these are the ones I e-mailed as well.**
 * FLL provided list of sites:**
 * General Food Safety Sites**

[] - USDA Food Safety and Inspection Service virtual rep who answers all kinds of questions [] – forum in which you can ask questions and get responses from farms and ranchers Cooking experts that could help you with feeback on the e-pan: []
 * Sites on which you can submit questions:**

[] - some explanation of what meat producers are required to do to reduce chance of contamination [] - meat industry answers about mad cow disease [] - not just meat, but has a lot of information from the perspective of the organic farming community [] - Site of the National Cattlemen’s Beef Association – I think this is the association that sued Oprah Winfrey for saying she’d never eat beef again, and lost. Has a little information on what steps they take to ensure the safety of beef. [] - this gives a nice straightforward explanation of how the CDC investigates cases of food contamination, and where points of contamination might be, and various aspects of food contamination outbreaks [] - Beef Safety Handbook from the Beef Safety Checkoff - explanations of methods of insuring beef safety [] - Food and Drug Administration’s (FDA) food safety site – search “beef” and you get a really extensive list of recalls from hamburgers to dog jerky.
 * Beef/Meat safety sites**

[] - has some information on methods developed through research [] - story about FDA pilot projects on tracing contaminated food [] - talking about targeting 6 additional strains of e-coli for testing [] - outlines the kind of questions asked in food safety research
 * Research sites**