• Keep foods safe to help your family stay well.
• You can do many things to prevent food poisoning while shopping for food.
• Put refrigerated and frozen foods in the shopping cart last.
• Put raw meat and poultry in plastic bags so the juices do not get on  other foods.
• Go home from the store right away and put the cold and frozen foods away first.
• Wash your hands before and after you handle raw meat and poultry.
• Keep everything clean.

Prepared by Shirley Camp, Extension Educator, Nutrition & Wellness

Fact Sheet 11
1997

Consumer and Family Economics
Department of Agricultural and Consumer Economics
University of Illinois Extension
University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign