from Kansas State University
Cooking programs are popular on TV, but a
word of caution comes from Kansas State
University researchers. Their report in the
Journal of Public Health viewed one hundred
cooking shows with twenty-four popular chefs
and found examples of unclean food
preparation. Food safety expert Edgar
Chambers noted twenty-three percent of the
chefs licked their fingers, which he says is
terrible. Another twenty percent touched their
hair or dirty clothing and then touched food
again. But the most common food safety
issues included lack of hand washing, not
changing the cutting board between raw meat
and vegetables that would not be cooked.
Chambers says what is thought to be the
twenty-four-hour flu, is often an illness from
unsafe food preparation.