The County Health Department is out with "Six Rules of Food Safety and Football Fun:"
• If you are going to drink alcohol, plan for a designated driver.
• Be clean: use soap and water to clean your hands before you handle foods and clean surfaces that you will be using for food preparation.
• Remember to separate: keep cooked foods separate from ready-to-eat foods. Never use utensils on cooked food that were used earlier on raw foods. Don’t put cooked foods on plates that were used for raw foods without first thoroughly cleaning the plates.
• Always cook thoroughly: food should be cooked to a safe internal temperature, and use a meat thermometer to make sure the meat is done. You cannot always tell just by looking if something is safe to eat.
• Definitely chill: food should be chilled promptly after serving, and when food is being transported from one place to another, your refrigerator should be set at 40 degrees or lower.
• You should basically remember to keep "hot foods hot and cold foods cold."
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