Separate
Don’t cross-contaminate
Why it matters
Even after you’ve cleaned your hands and surfaces
thoroughly, raw meat, poultry, seafood, and eggs can still spread
illness-causing bacteria to ready-to-eat foods—unless you keep them separate.
But which foods need to be kept separate, and how?
Follow these top tips to keep your family safe
cutting meat on a cuttingboard Use separate cutting boards
and plates for produce and for meat, poultry, seafood, and eggs.
Placing ready-to-eat food on a surface that held raw meat,
poultry, seafood, or eggs can spread bacteria and make you sick. But stopping
cross-contamination is simple.
•Use one cutting board for fresh produce, and one for raw
meat, poultry, or seafood.
•Use separate plates and utensils for cooked and raw foods.
•Before using them again, thoroughly wash plates, utensils,
and cutting boards that held raw meat, poultry, seafood, or eggs.
•Once a cutting board gets excessively worn or develops
hard-to-clean grooves, consider replacing it.
Keep meat, poultry, seafood, and eggs separate from all
other foods at the grocery.
Make sure you aren’t contaminating foods in your grocery bag
by:
•Separating raw meat, poultry, seafood, and eggs from other
foods in your shopping cart.
•At the checkout, place raw meat, poultry, and seafood in
plastic bags to keep their juices from dripping on other foods.
refrigerator contents Keep meat, poultry, seafood, and eggs
separate from all other foods in the fridge.
Bacteria can spread inside your fridge if the juices of raw
meat, poultry, seafood, and eggs drip onto ready-to-eat foods. But stopping
this contamination is simple…
•Place raw meat, poultry, and seafood in containers or
sealed plastic bags to prevent their juices from dripping or leaking onto other
foods. If you’re not planning to use these foods within a few days, freeze them
instead.
•Keep eggs in their original carton and store them in the
main compartment of the refrigerator—not in the door.
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