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Collage of three photos: (1) a hand holding a meat thermometer sticking out of a roast chicken; (2) two women and a child enjoying a meal with eggs, strawberries, and nut butter; (3) family enjoying a meal including glasses of milk.

Consumer Food Safety Practices: Raw Milk Consumption and Food Thermometer Use

  • by M. Taylor Rhodes, Fred Kuchler, Ket McClelland and Karen Hamrick
  • 1/29/2019
  • EIB-205

Overview

In this report on the at-home, food-safety practices of the U.S. population, researchers investigate the application of two Food and Drug Administration-recommended food-safety practices by taking a closer look at the estimated 14 percent of at-home meal preparers who use meat thermometers when preparing meat and the 2 percent who use nonpasteurized raw milk in a typical week.

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