Be ready for winter storms

Food saftety infosheet highlights:
-Have a thermometer in your fridge and freezer
-Have a tip-sensitive digital thermometer ready to check foods
-Have items that don’t require refrigeration and can be eaten cold or heated on the outdoor grill
-Don’t store food that requires temperature control outside as thaw/ freeze potential is high
-Fill coolers with snow and ice and store inside to keep foods cool

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Dr. Ben Chapman is a professor and food safety extension specialist at North Carolina State University. As a teenager, a Saturday afternoon viewing of the classic cable movie, Outbreak, sparked his interest in pathogens and public health. With the goal of less foodborne illness, his group designs, implements, and evaluates food safety strategies, messages, and media from farm-to-fork. Through reality-based research, Chapman investigates behaviors and creates interventions aimed at amateur and professional food handlers, managers, and organizational decision-makers; the gate keepers of safe food. Ben co-hosts a biweekly podcast called Food Safety Talk and tries to further engage folks online through Instagram, Twitter, Facebook, YouTube and, maybe not surprisingly, Pinterest. Follow on Twitter @benjaminchapman.