Always Wash - Wash your hands everytime before and after you touch food. Keep you utensils, cutting boards, and dishes clean.

Separate Meats - keep meats and untensils used to prepare them separate from other foods. By using different cutting boards and dishes, you can prevent the speard of bacteria that are common in meats. Also clean all utensils, dishes, and cutting boards after use with raw meat. Use hot water and soap.

Raw Meat - Keep raw meat and cooked meat separate. Clean all utensils after they are used with raw meat. Do not use forks and other utensils with raw and cooked meat without properly washing them. Touch raw meat as little as possible.

Food Temperature - Keep cold food cold and hot food hot. Heat and coldness kill infectious bacteria. Thaw meat inside your refridgerator. When grocery shopping, buy your cold items last. This will help keep them cold on the way home.

Fruits and Vegetables - Apples, carrots, and other fruits and vegetables that have hard skin need to be scrubbed under cold water and dried before being put in the refridgerator. Fruits and vegetables with soft skin or ones that rot easily need to be stored in the refrigerator and rinsed before consumption.

Sponges - Your sponge provides a habitat for many microbes. By drying your sponge in a microwave will help prevent the speard of bacteria.