how to food safety
How to: Cooking Outdoors and Keeping Food Safe     _ __ _ _Photo courtesy of The Prepared Pantry By Dennis Weaver, CEO,  Nothing will spoil a tailgating party quicker than food poisoning and yet there are millions of cases each year in the U.S. Most cases are mild-not much more than an inconvenience-but some are serious and occasionally fatal. You can protect our food, our families, and our friends by following few safety precautions. If you are in charge of preparing food, you should know the enemy, the three types of microorganisms that might make you sick. They are yeasts, molds, and bacteria. You are surrounded by all three--they are in the air, the soil, the water. You cannot avoid them entirely but you can control their growth. _ _ Yeasts can be either friend or foe but they are not the problem that molds and bacteria are.  Molds are microscopic fungi that float through the air, land on your...... Read more

World leaders urged to boost road safety (AP)
AP - Former NATO chief George Robertson and movie actress Michelle Yeoh urged world leaders Wednesday to treat traffic accidents as though they were a killer disease.... Read more

Jurassic Dinosaur Bones Inaccessible Due to Safety Issues (source: Discovery)
The Dinosaur National Monument Quarry Visitor Center remains closed due to safety concerns, preventing paleontologists and other interested individuals from seeing one of the United State's largest and best quarry of dinosaur bones from the Jurassic period...... Read more

Kitchen Safety for the Holiday Season (source: Kansas City InfoZine)
Safe Kids Kansas offers kitchen safety reminders... Read more

Pittsburgh Steelers safety Troy Polamalu questionable 'at best' (source: ESPN)
Steelers star safety Troy Polamalu hasn't been ruled out of Sunday's game at Kansas City despite injuring his left knee for the second time this season, though coach Mike Tomlin says he is questionable at best.... Read more