September Is National Food Safety Education Month!
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Collapse ▲Have you ever gotten sick because of something you ate? Have you ever wondered why and how you could protect yourself and others from experiencing that again?
Food Safety Education Month
The truth is food borne illnesses may occur more often than you think. Approximately 48 million Americans will get sick from a food borne illness each year. Over 9 million Americans experience a food borne illness resulting from 1 of the 31 pathogens that we know of, with about 56,000 of those illnesses resulting in hospitalization, and over a 1,000 deaths. About 39 million Americans get sick from unknown pathogens, with about 72,000 needing hospitalization, and about 1,700 deaths. In other words, the CDC estimates that about 1 in 6 people in the United States will get sick, 128,000 will be hospitalized, and 3,000 will die per year from food borne illnesses.
September is National Food Safety Education Month, and N.C. Cooperative Extension aims to help to reduce the risk of food borne illness through educational resources and events! Safe Plates, NC State Extension’s family of evidence-based food safety programming and resources, is a fantastic resource for all of your food safety needs and questions. Safe Plates provides everything from Food Safety Managers trainings to basic home food safety and preservation information.
If you are interested in learning more about Safe Plates offerings and ways to connect with them, or take a look deeper into some of the research done by the CDC, please check out the links below!
NC State Extension Food Safety
Estimates of Foodborne Illness in the United States (CDC)
Safe Plates Links: