HUMAN NUTRITION

Detailed explanation-1: -Use separate plates and utensils for cooked and raw foods. Use hot, soapy water to thoroughly wash plates, utensils, and cutting boards that touched raw meat, poultry, seafood, eggs, or flour.

Detailed explanation-2: -Raw food and cooked food should be stored separately in the fridge. Bacteria from raw food can contaminate cold cooked food, and the bacteria can multiply to dangerous levels if the food is not cooked thoroughly again. Always store raw food in sealed or covered containers at the bottom of the fridge.

Detailed explanation-3: -Separate raw meat, poultry, and seafood from other foods in your grocery-shopping cart. Place these foods in plastic bags to prevent their juices from dripping onto other foods. It is also best to separate these foods from other foods at check out and in your grocery bags.

Detailed explanation-4: -Separate raw meat, poultry, and seafood from produce and other foods in your grocery-shopping cart and in your refrigerator. Place food in plastic bags to prevent their juices, which may contain harmful bacteria, from dripping onto other foods.

Detailed explanation-5: -Cooking can kill most food poisoning organisms – it is important not to spread the organisms from the raw food back to the cooked food. Keeping raw and cooked food separate stops the bacteria from raw food re-contaminating cooked food.