Expert Offers Food for Thought to Avoid Illnesses Over the Holidays.

AScribe Health News Service, December, 2006

Byline: Purdue University

WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind., Dec. 5 (AScribe Newswire) -- A Purdue University expert advises hosts and partygoers to remember the two-hour rule to help avoid food-borne illnesses this holiday season.

"Two hours is really about as long as any kind of food needs to be setting out. After that it should be refrigerated," says Laura Palmer, a Cooperative Extension Service specialist in food and nutrition and a registered dietitian. "I think people make the food and then get so involved with their families that they forget to clean up and put things away."

Palmer says it is important for both those making the food and those eating it to take note of good food preparation and presentation practices that can cut down on food-borne...

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