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Program Goals

Practicing safe food handling can help prevent illness and disease. Cooperative Extension provides programs and publications to teach you how to select, prepare, store and preserve food safely.

Featured Programs

• Smart Kids Fight BAC®
• ServSafe®
• Home Food Preservation
  • Fact Sheets
  • So Easy to Preserve book and videos
  • National Center for Home Food Preservation

Publications

The place to find our Georgia Cooperative Extension listings of food safety related publications, from preventing foodborne illness, to creating emergency food supplies, to home food preservation.

Additional Resources

• 2012 GA Department of Education Community Food Processing Centers

Related Sites

Fight BAC!® Food Safety Education Campaign
Gateway to Government Food Safety Information
International Food Information Council (IFIC) Foundation
Food Marketing Institute
Grocery Manufacturers Association - Consumer Information
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)
FDA's Center for Food Safety and Applied Nutrition
USDA's Food Safety and Inspection Service
National Food Safety & Toxicology Center at Michigan State University
Georgia Division of Public Health

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Publications

Our publications for foods, families, finances and housing. We also have Spanish publications.    
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