For Consumers

CDC Social Media

Blogs

• Cook Your Mother's Day Cookies!
• Cupid is Coming! Tips for a Romantic—and Safe—Dinner
• Hold the Raw Sprouts, Please
• Sneaky Salmonella: It's Common, Costly, and Preventable
• Tips to Fresh Produce Safety
• Drinking Raw Milk: It's Not Worth the Risk
• Raw Milk: Details on the Risks
• Eggs: Reducing the risk of Salmonella in eggs

Tools

• Ads and Social Media – Division of Foodborne, Waterborne, and Environmental Diseases
• Making Food Safer to Eat – Badges, E-cards, and More
• Peanut Butter and Peanut-Containing Product Recalls Related to Salmonella Infections
• CDC Social Media
• Handwashing poster [PDF - 1.3 MB]

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CDC.gov Features

• Food Safety
  • Foods and Germs
  • Seasons, Holidays, and Events
  • Pregnant Women and Infants
  • Outbreaks of Foodborne Illness
  • Data and Statistics
  • Environmental Health

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CDC Podcasts and Medscape Commentaries

Report Cards on Food Safety

• New U.S. Foodborne Illness Estimates
• Foodborne Illness: A Handy Overview(CDC Medscape Commentary)  
• A Minute of Health: Preventing Foodborne Illnesses, MMWR 2010
• A Cup of Health: Preventing Foodborne Illnesses, MMWR 2010
• Report Card on Food Safety (2008)

Tips for Consumers

• Making Food Safer to Eat: What You Need to Know
• Got Milk? Don't Get Raw Milk! A Cautionary Tale
• Savvy About Salmonella?
• Wash Away Salmonella
• Tips to Reduce Your Risk of Salmonella from Eggs
• Well Done, Please
• Tips to Reduce Your Risk of Getting a Salmonella Infection from Dry Pet Food
• Keeping Food Safe
• Wash Your Hands
• Water Frogs, Aquariums, and Salmonella -- Oh My!

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Food Safety Campaigns

• Food Safe Families Campaign: Clean, Separate, Cook, Chill
• Be Food Safe (foundation for Clean, Separate, Cook, Chill)
  • About Be Food Safe
  • Messages
  • Retailers
  • Suppliers

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Just for Kids

CDC Kidtastics
Check out these CDC podcasts made just for kids! They talk about many different germs and diseases and what you can do to stay healthy and safe. Need a place to start? Try

• Power Packing: How to pack a lunch more safely
• Keeping Food Safe
• Wash Your Hands
• Water Frogs, Aquariums, and Salmonella -- Oh My!

Fight Bac!
Learn how to keep food safe from bacteria with games, songs, quizzes and more.

Food Safety Education For Kids & Teens
Take a quiz, play a game, or even read a comic book about food safety.

CDC Infectious Disease Trading Cards
This card set has photos and information about some of the infectious diseases that CDC studies—like Salmonella[PDF - 149 KB] and E. coli [PDF - 140 KB] —and how disease detectives figure out which germs are making people sick.

BAM! Body and Mind
BAM! Body and Mind gives kids the information they need to make healthy lifestyle choices. The site focuses on topics that kids told us are important to them — such as stress and physical fitness — using games, quizzes, and other interactive features.

EXCITE! — Excellence in Curriculum Innovation through Teaching Epidemiology and the Science of Public Health 
EXCITE! is a collection of teaching and reference materials developed by CDC to introduce and excite youth from kindergarten through 12th grade about the knowledge and skills utilized by public health professionals.

The Science Ambassador Program
The CDC Science Ambassador Program Workshop is a five-day professional development workshop at CDC for middle and high school science educators to collaborate with CDC subject matter experts on developing public health-based lesson plans.

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