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THE CITIZEN, WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 5, 1998. PAGE 15.
Registered nurses offer tips
to keep picnics bacteria free
In summertime, many families
love backyard barbecues and
outdoor picnics. Unfortunately,
bacteria also enjoy eating outdoors.
And, if you're serving the right
kinds of food at temperatures
bacteria love, registered nurses say
their numbers can grow to
dangerous levels within a few
hours.
The result? Every year thousands
of people become victims of food
poisoning. But it is possible to eat
safely outdoors if you choose the
right foods and prepare them
safely.
First, menu planning. Foods that
are usually considered safe for
outdoors are those that can be kept
at room temperature. They include
hard cheese, dried sausage, pickles,
relish, mustard, ketchup, fruit,
cereal, cookies, cake, honey, jam,
peanut butter and nuts.
The trickiest foods to serve safely
are creamed dishes. They should
only be served straight from the
fridge or stove.
Many cases of food poisoning
can be prevented by following
three rules: keep cold foods cold,
keep hot foods hot, and make sure
your hands and cooking utensils are
clean.
Picnics can be a special problem
when you need to keep foods at
safe temperatures. If you don't have
an insulated cooler, first chill food
thoroughly in the fridge, wrap it in
plastic and then in several sheets of
newspaper.
Improvise an "ice block" b
using a frozen container of juice or
freezing water in clean milk
cartons. To keep food hot, you can
also wrap it in layers of newspaper
after first wrapping it in plastic.
Don't let bacteria move from raw-
meat to your hands, kitchen
utensils, serving dishes or chopping
boards. Always wash anything that
has touched raw meat with hot
soapy water.
Diluted bleach can be used as an
extra precaution on cutting boards.
If you use one plate to move raw
meat to the barbecue, use a
different plate to carry the cooked
meat to the table. If possible, keep
a special board for use with raw
meat only - and make sure it is not
wood.
• To serve barbecued hamburgers
safely, first thaw the meat in the
fridge or microwave. Then cook the
patties right away or return them to
the fridge. When cooked, they
should be brown in the centre and
the juices should run clear.
Hamburgers should be eaten
right away, kept hot, or
refrigerated.
Leftovers should be reheated and
eaten within three days. This is true
for any kind of ground meat.
Check your local health unit for
more information about food
safety.
The Registered Nurses Association
of Ontario, as the voluntary
professional association represent-
ing a broad network of over 14,000
registered nurses in Ontario, is the
strong, credible voice leading the
nursing profession to influence and
promote healthy public policy.
Casual labour
Some of the volunteer muscle working this past weekend
on the fitness station at the Blyth Greenway Trail were, in
front, from left: Lisa Root, Darcey Cook, Stacey McLellan.
In back are Warren Moore and Steve Cook.
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Able hands
Doug Scrimgeour, who proposed the idea of a 10-station
fitness trail on the Blyth Greenway Trail, is presented with
a cheque from Patrick Walters, right, a consumer sales
representative with Molson Breweries. Volunteers in over
85 communities across th'e province sought funding in
phase 2 of Molson's Local Heroes program for the
revamping of adult sport and recreational facilities.
Molson's funding is to go towards the hard costs, while
volunteers are expected to supply materials and people
power.
Letter to the editor
Continued from page 4
Benefit legislation will not proceed.
We had recognized that the
severe fiscal constraints on the
government in 1995 and 1996
made the consideration of reducing
government expenditures through
cuts to a variety of programs,
including Old Age Security.
virtually inescapable.
However, it was our position that
there were serious flaws in the
Senior Benefit proposal that needed
to be fixed, that implementation
should be delayed beyond the
proposed start date of 2001 and that
the proposal should only be
implemented if the government
could assure Canadians that such
drastic measures were necessary.
We congratulate the Minister of
Finance for listening to and
understanding the concerns of the
Coalition of ,Seniors fo.* Social
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And do it over and over again.
Equity and other seniors groups
and for having the courage to
recognize that the proposal is now
not necessary, and for acting
accordingly, said Edwards.
At the same time, we are
concerned with the position of
lower income Canadian seniors
who would have seen their incomes
increased in 2001. We hope that the
need to increase benefits for the
less fortunate seniors and the
commitment to full indexing of all
benefits will not be forgotten.
We are also concerned that future
measures to reduce the costs of
benefits for seniors may be
introduced in future budgets
making meaningful consultations
almost impossible, said Edwards.
Claude Edwards,
National President,
Federal Superannuates National
Association.
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