Success StoryFloyd County Family & Consumer Sciences Improves Food Safety Practices
Floyd County Family & Consumer Sciences Improves Food Safety Practices
Author: Andrea Slone
Planning Unit: Floyd County CES
Major Program: Food Preservation
Plan of Work: Proactive Health and Wellbeing for all
Outcome: Initial Outcome
According to the U.S. Department of Health & Human Services, one in five households in the United States practice home canning. The Center for Disease Control has stated that 30 percent of botulism cases from the past decade was caused by home canning practices. As by popular demand in the county, the Floyd County Family & Consumer Science Agent held multiple food preservation hands-on workshops throughout the county for 27 individuals. The workshop consisted of vegetable preservation using the pressure canning and water bath methods. Food safety was the main topic of discussion throughout the workshop. Hand washing, safe food handling, pounds of pressure, and time was highly emphasized. Surveys indicated that 100 percent of participants strongly agreed that they were able to identify safe, research-based methods of home food preservation, 91 percent claimed to have better skills in home food preservation methods and identify the equipment needed for home preservation methods.
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