With Food Safety Week nearly here, we just wanted to remind everyone how important it is to not compromise your health by cutting corners when it comes to food even with the increasing cost of living.

The Food Safety Information Council recommends following these tips to ensure you stay food safe:

  • Buy yourself a meat thermometer and use it, it doesn’t have to be a fancy digital version (although they can be more effective) one with a dial can be just as effective.
  • If you are moving to cheaper cuts of meat such as mince, sausages, rolled roasts, liver and other offal and chicken, remember they need to be cooked to at least 75°C in the centre (using that meat thermometer)
  • Beef, lamb, kangaroo in whole cuts like chops, steaks, pieces and roasts at least 63°C (medium rare) and leave to rest 3 to 5 minutes. Pork steaks and pieces to 70°C and roasts to between 70°C and 75°C and leave to rest 3 to 5 minutes.
  • Don’t be tempted to forage for wild food as a saving, mushrooms and other plants can be toxic and wild foods can be contaminated by animal faeces
  • Don’t purchase food from unknown sources such as on social media, make sure they are a legal source
  • If you need support contact a food charity such as OzHarvest, Second Bite or FoodBank, never ‘Dumpster dive’ for discarded food which is likely to be contaminated or may have been discarded due to a food recall.

‘Learn more about food safety and test your knowledge and take the food safety quiz on the Food Safety Information Council website www.foodsafety.asn.au ‘

Check out these resources for the kids to help them with their journey to ensuring they are food safe:

https://www.foodsafety.asn.au/kids-resources/