Food Safety

This area is dedicated to educating parents on how to prevent food borne illness.

Food borne illness, sometimes wrongly called "food poisoning," is caused from eating food that is contaminated with certain disease causing bacteria, viruses, parasites or toxins produced by microorganisms. To some, food borne illness is also caused by eating foods contaminated with poisonous chemicals, such as heavy metals or pesticides. Also, some consider food allergies a form of food borne illness.