Everything You Need To Know About Food Safety But Didn't Know Where To Look (or even that you needed to know)

I am so psyched about this! Yes, I'm a nerd, but this is just great!

Yesterday, the federal goverment launched FoodSafety.gov, a website that has everything you will probably ever need to know and more about food safety, in article and chart formats, with information from the USDA, FDA, CDC, NIH, and other federal agencies. Recalls are posted in a live feed in the upper left corner of the pages. (Today's recalls include cookies that were labeled as molasses cookies but are really peanut butter cookies. So, peanut allergy sufferers, avoid Stop & Shop Home Town Bakery molasses cookies for a while.) This is government at its most effective. We need more of this quality of work from the feds.

Charts to check out first:

What temperature do you need to cook that meat to be safe?

How long can I keep stuff in the fridge or freezer?

How long can those eggs/egg dishes/egg products stay in the fridge/freezer?

There are also Q&As, like this one about how to spot a safe seafood seller.

Full disclosure: I worked in the seafood department of the Spencer, MA Price Chopper supermarket in the summer of 2000. Going by this advice, I would not buy from myself and that department as it was at that time.

There is also a wide variety of multimedia materials, which would be a good resource for teachers and groups.

Good job, feds! Now do everything else this well!