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Alternative Title:
J Food Prot
Personal Author:
Brown, Laura Green ; Khargonekar, Shivangi ; Bushnell, Lisa
Brown, Laura Green ; Khargonekar, Shivangi ; Bushnell, Lisa Less -
Corporate Authors:
National Center for Environmental Health (U.S.). Environmental Health Specialists Network Working Group.
Description:
This study was conducted by the Environmental Health Specialists Network (EHS-Net) of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. The purpose was to examine restaurant chicken preparation and cooking practices and kitchen managers' food safety knowledge concerning chicken. EHS-Net members interviewed managers about chicken preparation practices in 448 restaurants. The study revealed that many restaurants were not following U.S. Food and Drug Administration Food Code guidance concerning cross-contamination prevention and proper cooking and that managers lacked basic food safety knowledge about chicken. Forty percent of managers said that they never, rarely, or only sometimes designated certain cutting boards for raw meat (including chicken). One-third of managers said that they did not wash and rinse surfaces before sanitizing them. Over half of managers said that thermometers were not used to determine the final cook temperature of chicken. Only 43% of managers knew the temperature to which raw chicken needed to be cooked for it to be safe to eat. These findings indicate that restaurant chicken preparation and cooking practices and manager food safety knowledge need improvement. Findings from this study could be used by food safety programs and the restaurant industry to target training and intervention efforts to improve chicken preparation and cooking practices and knowledge concerning safe chicken preparation.
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Animals Article Chickens Cooking Food Contamination Food Handling Food Safety Humans Meat Restaurants Temperature
Source:
J Food Prot. 76(12):2141-2145
Pubmed ID:
24290693
Pubmed Central ID:
PMC5578440
Document Type:
Journal Article
Funding:
CC999999/Intramural CDC HHS/United States ; HIR 10-001/HX/HSRD VA/United States
CC999999/Intramural CDC HHS/United States ; HIR 10-001/HX/HSRD VA/United States Less -
Place as Subject:
United States
Collection(s):
CDC Public Access
Main Document Checksum:
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urn:sha256:bef0808641bfbd5ea4a3eb21ac8eeb5cf787cc41ea0362bb6eeb1bc89e40b1f3
Download URL:
https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/47885/cdc_47885_DS1.pdf
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