Seasonal Food Safety Fact Sheets
FSIS food safety fact sheets and publications related to events, celebrations, and holidays.. Plan ahead to ease the countdown tension for your Thanksgiving meal. If any of your holiday recipes call for uncooked or lightly-cooked eggs, you can ... [... more]
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Food Thermometer Essential When Stuffing a Turkey
FSIS fact sheet describes how to safely handle dressing or stuffing when preparing a turkey or other whole poultry. For optimal safety and uniform doneness, cook stuffing separately. However, if stuffing a turkey, Cooking a home-stuffed turkey is ... [... more]
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Safe Handling of Turducken Ingredients
Safe handling and preparation tips for this specialty item, is a deboned stuffed chicken inside a deboned stuffed duck inside a deboned stuffed turkey. Club sandwiches, lasagna, and eggs Benedict are examples of foods assembled in layers. ... [... more]
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Let's Talk Turkey
Buy your turkey only 1 to 2 days before you plan to cook it. Keep it stored in the refrigerator until you're ready to cook it. Place it on a tray or in a pan to catch any juices that may leak. If not handled properly, any harmful bacteria that ... [... more]
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Focus On: Holiday or Party Buffets
A popular way to celebrate holidays or any party occasion is to invite friends and family to a buffet. However, this type of food service where foods are left out for long periods leave the door open for uninvited guests - bacteria that cause ... [... more]
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Callers ask hundreds of other questions about turkeys - from the time they are hatched on the farm until they make it home to the freezer. Although turkey is enjoyed year round, the peak time for buying, cooking, and storing whole turkeys is the ... [... more]
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Countdown to the Holiday
Step by step instructions and timetables for planning a Thanksgiving turkey dinner. As Thanksgiving approaches, cooking the traditional turkey dinner gives rise to anxieties and questions. What kind of turkey should I buy? Should I buy a frozen ... [... more]
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Roasting Those Other Holiday Meats
FSIS fact sheet on the safe handling and preparation of popular alternatives to the holiday roast turkey. No doubt about it, holiday time is turkey time. Of the 266 million turkeys produced in 2006, 30 percent are served during the holidays. Yet ... [... more]
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Emergency Preparedness Fact Sheets
These FSIS fact sheets explain how to keep food safe in an emergency, and discuss a variety of biosecurity issues including intentional or unintentional threats to the food supply. Provides information and recommendations about keeping food safe ... [... more]
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Safe Methods for Thawing
Turkeys must be kept at a safe temperature during "the big thaw." While frozen, a turkey is safe indefinitely. However, as soon as it begins to thaw, any bacteria that may have been present before freezing can begin to grow again. A package of . [... more]
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Take-out Dinners Hot from the Oven
Basic information about food safety and pre-cooked or to-go meals such as a turkey dinner. Pick up the food hot … and keep it hot. Keeping food warm is not enough. Harmful bacteria multiply fastest between 40 and 140 °F. Set oven temperature high ... [... more]
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ROASTING INSTRUCTIONS
Many variables can affect the roasting time of a whole turkey: The depth and size of the pan can reduce heat circulation to all areas of the turkey. The use of a foil tent for the entire time can slow cooking. The rack position can have an affect ... [... more]
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