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Show Keeping Food Safe To Eat Have you noticed that the trees are beginning to show the first signs of spring- That means you can set your sights on picnics, eating your lunch outside, making plans for your family's Easter celebration. BIT YOU could get an awful aw-ful bellyache from food that's gone bad unless you take some common sense precautions in preparing food for these occasions. oc-casions. To help you avoid sal- j monella and other food-borne I illnesses, the U.S. Depart- ment of Agriculture has published "Keeping Food Safe to Eat." You can get a copy for 30 cents from Consumer Information In-formation Center. Dept. I. Pueblo, Colo. HtiNjy. Here are some ways to keep food safe' DON'T LET food stand at room temperature for more than two hours. This includes preparation time. So. be careful with the kids Easter eggs--refngerate them after dveing them and don't let them hide too long And. if you pack your lunch, don't pack something perishable unless vou can keep it refrigerated until you eat. IF YOU'VE decided to make some favorite desserts (or Easter, perhaps coconut custard cus-tard pie or eclairs, be careful Right alter they hae cooled slightly put them in the refrigerator j And. if you happen to take j this kind of dessert on your picnics, make sure it's packed j in a cooler with ice Follow these same precautions (or salads made with salad dressings dress-ings containing eggs ur milk products AM). WHEN vou're doing vour atual l""d preparation, he ven,- carefut to thoroughly clean all dishes, utensils, work surfat.es and uur hands wilh soap and water after each It's especially important to clean up between handling raw ((J and nke-d !md 1 his prevents the oked food from becoming contaminated with Pattella that m.H hae been prev-nt in the raw f J Kl PIS( FOOD Safe to Fat" ( Cents) is nne of over 2 40 selected Federal consumer con-sumer publ nations listed in the sprmg edition of the 'Consumer Information Index In-dex " Published quartertv bv the Consumer Information ( enter of the ( tern-rat Sen. h es Administration, a fret cop of the "Index ' is available from onsumer Information I enter. Puebio. (. oio sliM |