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Penobscot County Extension office building

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Contact UMaine Cooperative Extension Penobscot County Office:
307 Maine Ave.
Bangor, ME 04401-4331
Phone: (207) 942-7396 or
800-287-1485 (in Maine)
FAX: (207) 942-7537
E-mail: cepen@umext.maine.edu

Office hours: weekdays from 8:00 a.m. to 4:30 p.m.

Food Safety

Foodborne illness continues to be an urgent issue across the United States. In fact there are an estimated 76 million cases of foodborne illness and up to 5,000 deaths in our country each year. With education and safe food handling practices, foodborne illness IS preventable.

Food Safety Education for Kids and Teens

USDA Food Safety Mobile Coloring Book [PDF; text version]
Meet Thermy™, BAC, and some other characters on these pages while you learn four important food safety steps: Clean, Separate, Cook, and Chill. Tell grown-ups to use Thermy™, a food thermometer, when they cook!

Food Safety Mobile Game (requires Macromedia Flash Player; download it for free)
The Food Safety Mobile is about to take a ride through Safe Food Park. The invisible enemy is called BAC. Fight him as you make your way through this Mobile game! (*The game file is fairly large, 2.0 MB, and may take several minutes to download at slower connection speeds. The game is also resizeable. If it is running too slowly decrease the size of your browser window.)

Additional Food Safety Education Programs

Additional Food Safety Resources


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