Success StoryFood Safety at New Hope



Food Safety at New Hope

Author: Connie Downey

Planning Unit: Clay County CES

Major Program: Nutrition and Food Systems General

Outcome: Long-Term Outcome

The CDC (Center for Disease and Prevention) estimates that one in six Americans get sick from contaminated foods or beverages each year and 3,000 die. The Clay County Cooperative Extension Service Supplemental Nutrition Education Program Assistant partnered with New Hope to prove the Healthy Choices for Every Body program to their participants.  

 

The group of diverse participants made a 45% in washing their hands before preparing food, 55% change in cleaning items/surfaces after coming in contact with raw meat or seafood, 82% improved on thawing out frozen food practices, and 73% improvement in using  a meat thermometer more often. Several of the participants stated that thawing frozen food on the counter is how their mothers and grandmothers always did it. 






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