Easter Egg Food Safety

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Updated June 30, 2025

The original link broke.

You can still read about egg safety here:

https://www.fda.gov/food/buy-store-serve-safe-food/what-you-need-know-about-egg-safety

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Easter is here, and you need to pay attention to the food safety and handling of foods containing eggs, especially your Easter eggs.

Checkout this website:  Kraft Foods - Easter Egg Safety

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Spent Nuclear Fuel Storage - A Danger In The US

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Japan's situation just highlights the dangers we've got here in the United States, reports this LA Times article, Unsafe at any reactor - U.S. nuclear plants are storing increasing amounts of highly radioactive spent fuel in pools that are vulnerable to accident or attack. New safety policies are needed.

I guess this is yet another conversation around setting priorities. I was just reading about how environmentalists want to shut down a local golf course to save endangered frogs and snakes, Sharp Park Golf Course - Environmental Controversy.  After reading about the U.S.' situation with spent nuclear fuel, I think we need raise this nuclear issue above things like protecting endangered species. 

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FDA - Safe Drug Use After Natural Disasters

Floods, fires, earthquakes, hurricanes, oh my.  The FDA provides recommendations on Safe Drug Use After a Natural Disaster. Here's what they cover:

Drugs Exposed to Excessive Heat, such as Fire
Drugs Exposed to Unsafe Water
Drugs that Need Refrigeration

For more information:
FDA - Natural Disaster Response
FDA - Hurricanes: Health and Safety

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Thanksgiving Alert - Cooked Turkey Can Still Cause Food Poisoning!

While cooking your turkey properly makes it safe to eat, it's really only safe to eat for a short while after being cooked and stored properly. The danger lies is what you do with it after it's been cooked, as outlined in this news clip, "Thanksgiving Chefs Beware: Cooking The Turkey May Not Prevent Food Poisoning." The key point is a "live" form of the bacterium, C. perfringens, is killed by cooking, but its spores survive will survive a trip through the oven. The spores aren't harmful if eaten, and they will return to their vegetative state ("live") if warm turkey meat is left too long. For a safe Thanksgiving meal, follow these essential tips . . .

1. Cook the Thanksgiving turkey to 165 degrees.
2. Chill leftovers quickly after a meal is finished.
3. Cut meat off the bone and store perishables in shallow pans.
4. Reheat leftover turkey to 165 degrees and bring gravy to a boil.

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