Food Safety:Washing Produce, Cutting Boards, Storage Containers

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t's not just your hands that need washing during food preparation. To prevent foodborne illness, it's also important to know how to properly wash produce, cutting boards and food containers.

Produce

• Use clean scissors or blades to open bags of produce.
• Fruit peels may carry bacteria that can spread during eating, cutting or peeling. Wash all fresh fruits and vegetables with cool tap water immediately before eating. This applies to ready-to-eat fruits and peel-and-eat fruits, such as oranges, bananas and lemons.
• Scrub firm produce such as melons and cucumbers with a clean produce brush.
• Remove and discard outer leaves of lettuce.
• After cleaning, place washed produce into clean storage containers, not back into the original ones.

Cutting Boards

• Use two cutting boards: one for raw meat, poultry and seafood; another for ready-to-eat foods like breads, fruits and vegetables.
• Wash cutting boards thoroughly in hot ... Read More

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