Food Safety Experts Won't Touch These Foods At A Summer Barbecue
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You may want to take a peek as your host is preparing the food, because it can tell you a lot.
Barbecues are one of the summer season’s greatest pleasures — who doesn’t love laid-back afternoons dining outdoors with friends and family? But while barbecues may feel easy-breezy and stress free, there is one part of the experience you need to be diligent about: food safety. From potato salad that’s been sitting out in the sun too long to potentially cross-contaminated meat, barbecues contain a few opportunities for error as far as food safety is concerned. Fortunately, these are pretty easy to avoid once you know what to look for.
To help guide you along, we reached out to food safety experts for their tips. Here are the foods that food safety experts won’t touch at a summer barbecue.