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| Keep
Foods On Holiday Buffets Safe |
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Transporting Holiday Foods
Safely |
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| Consumer
Prices For Pecans Higher In December |
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| Dairy
Cows Eat Big For College Research |
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| Don't
Overlook Holiday Safety Around The Home |
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| Keep
Foods On Holiday Buffets Safe |
1:41 |
Don't let a holiday buffet
cause guests to have a sick holiday season. |
During December a lot of
food will be served at Christmas parties and buffets. But a
foods specialist with the University of Georgia's College of
Family and Consumer Sciences says it's important to include
food safety at holiday parties, so small foodborne pathogens
won't cause big problems. She adds it's important to start clean
when preparing holiday foods. "It's important to wash your food
preparation surfaces with soap and hot water, and then you can
use a sanitizing solution made from one teaspoon of chlorine
bleach and one quart of water to sanitize your food preparation
surfaces before you start preparing the food. And this will
help to eliminate some of the bacteria that could cause foodborne
illness." That was Judy Harrison with the College of Family
and Consumer Sciences. While holidays are a good time for people
and families to come together, foods should stay separated.
Keep raw foods like meats, poultry, fish, and eggs away from
cooked, or ready-to-eat foods. This prevents harmful bacteria
from spreading from one food to another, which could make people
sick with a holiday foodborne illness. John Harrell, University
of Georgia College of Agricultural and Environmental Sciences,
reporting from Tifton. |
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| Transporting
Holiday Foods Safely |
1:54 |
Don't let foodborne pathogens
travel with your holiday dishes and crash those December parties
and meals. |
Tis the season for packing
families, gifts, and food in vehicles for a trip to a holiday
banquet or party. But a foods specialist with the University
of Georgia's College of Family and Consumer Sciences says salmonella
and other foodborne illnesses can turn the happy holiday season
into a season of sickness. She adds there's more to keeping
a covered dish safe, then just covering it up." When you're
transporting the food, you want to keep raw foods separate from
foods that are ready to eat. And so you can do this by wrapping
the foods securely, making sure that you keep raw meats that
you might be taking along to cook, keep those separate from
the other foods." Judy Harrison with the College of Family and
Consumer Sciences, who adds a cooked, stuffed turkey should
never be transported. It's best to cook the stuffing outside
the turkey. Before taking off with an unstuffed, cooked turkey,
take it out of the oven then wrap it in foil and put it straight
into a cooler. The university specialist recommends leaving
that holiday feast at home, if you must travel a great distance.
You will also leave behind foodborne pathogens that won't have
a chance to make the 2007 holiday season a sick one. |
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| Consumer
Prices For Pecans Higher In December |
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Nut lovers are having to dig
a little deeper this holiday season to pay for their favorite
pecan products and candy. |
Georgia is forecast to
lead the world in pecan production in 2007. The state's pecan
growers are expected to produce around 120 million pounds of
nuts this year, the highest yield since 2001. Despite this large
crop, scientists with the University of Georgia's College of
Agricultural and Environmental Sciences say consumers will pay
more for pecans during the holiday season. The demand is high,
and most of the pecans from this year's harvest have not made
it into stores and markets. "Well right now I don't think the
consumers have seen much of a drop from last year in the price.
Most of that is mainly going to be because it just takes awhile
to get all these nuts through the whole pipeline to get them
out there to the consumers." That was Lenny Wells with the College
of Agricultural and Environmental Sciences, who expects consumer
prices for pecan products will drop in January, once the holiday
demand passes, and more pecans from this year's large harvest
work their way into stores for consumers to go nuts over. John
Harrell, University of Georgia College of Agricultural and Environmental
Sciences, reporting from Tifton. |
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| Dairy
Cows Eat Big For College Research |
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Dairy cows located at University
of Georgia research facilities eat well every day so college
scientists can learn how to produce more milk. |
The dairy herd on the University
of Georgia's Tifton campus ate around twelve tons of food on
Thanksgiving Day. The next day they got another meal just like
their Thanksgiving feast. According to scientists with the University
of Georgia's College of Agricultural and Environmental Sciences,
dairy cows like the same diet every day. If you mix it up, it
could take them several days to adjust, which can cause milk
production to suffer. "They don't like change, they like to
be fed the same thing each day at the same time. They're not
like us that they like pizza one night and some steak or something
else the next night they like the same thing day in, day out,
but that makes a cow happy and keeps them working properly."
That was John Bernard with the College of Agricultural and Environmental
Sciences. A dairy cow's diet is mostly corn silage and hay.
But it also includes vitamins, protein supplements, and by-products
such as cottonseed, and grain mash left after beer, whiskey,
and ethanol production. University scientists are conducting
tests on these by-products, to learn more about the nutritional
factors, and if there is the potential for them to be harmful
to dairy cows. John Harrell, University of Georgia College of
Agricultural and Environmental Sciences, reporting from Tifton. |
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| Don't
Overlook Holiday Safety Around The Home |
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Many people get burned during
the Christmas season, because they get careless and overlook
holiday safety. |
Every year people are killed
or seriously injured during the holiday season, because of accidents
around the home. Debbie Wilburn, a county extension agent in
Hall County says many homes burn during December, because of
accidents involving candles. "The main accidents that we're
looking at involves fire. And this may be that you have candles
throughout your home Candles are lovely to look at but you do
need to take some precautions when it comes to safety. Again
make sure that you do not leave burning candles unattended or
near any type of flammable materials. Make sure that they are
in a secure place where pets or children can't accidentally
knock them over. Make sure they are extinguished before you
leave you home or office, or going to bed." Debbie Wilburn with
the University of Georgia's College of Agricultural and Environmental
Sciences. If you have a fireplace or wood burning stove, don't
throw wrapping paper in the fire to burn. Sparks and ashes can
work their way up the chimney and land on the roof, or the roof
of one of your neighbors, and cause a fire. They could also
cause a grass fire, or a fire in a nearby wooded area. With
a severe drought currently gripping the state, the chances of
a fire caused by sparks coming up a chimney from wrapping paper
are higher. John Harrell, University of Georgia College of Agricultural
and Environmental Sciences, reporting from Tifton. |
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