Washing raw chicken increases risk of food poisoning
The UK’s Food Standards Agency is urging people to stop washing raw chicken as the practice can spread campylobacter bacteria, the most common source of food poisoning in the UK.
June 17, 2014 · by · in Nutritional News · Tags: common-source, food-poisoning, nutrition, nutrition / diet, on call diets, practice, raw-chicken, standards, standards-agency, the-practice, urging-people
Checking sous vide cooking for safety
The Institute of Food Research (IFR) has been undertaking research for the Food Standards Agency to establish if the cooking technique sous vide is safe. Sous vide uses lower temperatures to improve food quality and could be a step closer to being more widely adopted after Institute of Food Research scientists assessed the steps needed to ensure the process is safe…
August 10, 2013 · by · in Nutritional News · Tags: cooking, diet, on call diets, standards-agency, step-closer, technique-sous, the-steps, vide-uses
