08 Jul 08 Grilling Safely

Food-bourne bugs make around 76 million people in the United States sick year and over 300 thousand are made sick enough to be hospitalized, and around 5,000 die.

When you’re grilling out, be sure to cook that meat properly – the internal temperature of pork and chicken should be at least 165°F. E-Coli is a bacteria we hear about a lot lately, and it can survive at temperatures up to 122°F.

Also be sure to wash your hands between handling that raw meat, and preparing the salad.

Also when grilling out watch those flies. Flies digest their food by regurgitating it first, quite often after they’ve visited some fecal matter; I am sure you get the picture here.