Up-To-Date Food Preservation Information
By
Rose Fisher Merkowitz-
Whether you are canning green beans, freezing corn, or making blackberry jam, be sure that you are doing it correctly, so that you will produce a safe and high quality food product for you and your family to enjoy. If you are canning or freezing garden produce and fruit this summer, please update your recipes and food preservation times with the most up-to-date resources. The following resources are approved for use by Ohio State University Extension:
• Ohioline, OSU Extension Website, Updated fact sheets from Ohio. Our office would also be able to provide you with this information. Several of these fact sheets would be good resources if you haven’t preserved food in a few years – “Basics for Canning Fruit," “Basics for Canning Vegetables," “Canning Basics," and “Freezing Basics." http://ohioline.osu.edu/hygfact/5000/index.html.
• National Center for Food Preservation, Factsheets, and links to food preservation information around the country. http://www.uga.edu/nchfp/publications/publications_usda.html.
• Ball Blue Book Guide to Preservation, 100th Anniversary, 2009 Edition. These books are often available at hardware or discount stores.
• So Easy To Preserve, 5th Edition, 2006. University of Georgia Cooperative Extension Complete Food Preservation Guide, $18.00, order at http://www.uga.edu/setp/order_book.pdf.
Contact me for additional food preservation information 937-393-1918 or merkowitz.1@osu.edu
FOOD SAFETY WEBSITE
Check out the new Ohio State University food safety website at http://foodsafety.osu.edu The site offers consumers, health professionals and people who are at high risk of food-borne illness, easy-to-understand information that they can incorporate in their day-to-day life. The site contains numerous photos to illustrate food safety concepts for consumers in the "Ask Mom" area; the area for health professionals, "Ask the Doc" provides food safety fact sheets; and the "Ask the Teacher" portion of the site, educators have access to a PowerPoint presentation they can download to teach food safety concepts. In addition, the site offers users a way to ask Ohio State's food safety professionals questions they can't find answers to, by emailing foodsafety@osu.edu or calling Ohio State's Food Safety Information Line, housed at the university's Food Industry Center, at 800-752-2751 (toll-free in Ohio), 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. Monday through Friday. The website and food safety e-mail and phone line are made possible by grants from the U.S. Department of Agriculture, The Kroger Co.; and the Center for Innovative Food Technology.
Have a great week!
Source: News and Media Relations, Martha Filipic
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