Let’s Not Waste Food During the Holiday Season
“Mom, what if raw meat juice dripped on a pear in my fridge?” my daughter asked in a text. “If I wash it, will it be safe to eat?”
I like when my young adult children finally think I know something.
I thought about the potential organisms that might be in the meat juice. Meat juice could contain Salmonella or E. coli, for example.
In some cases, ingesting just 10 cells of a microorganism can make you…