Food Safety Print Materials

Fact sheets, brochures, signs, and other materials that you can print and use.

On this page:
Consumer fact sheets
Food safety poster
Handwashing posters
Business fact sheets
Illness awareness materials
Teaching food safety
More materials

Consumer food safety fact sheets

	Keeping Food Safe During Buffets or Picnics Buffets or picnics can be a means to transmit disease among your guests if care is not taken in how the food is handled.
	Prevent Cross- Contamination Preventing cross-contamination is a key factor in preventing foodborne illness.
	Safe Grilling Fact sheet about handling food safely when grilling.
	Consumer Tips For Food Safety After Fires
	Food Safety While Boating, Camping and Hiking General rules for outdoor food safety.
	Food Safety for Summertime The number of people who get sick from food poisoning goes up in the summer. Be sure you and your family aren't among them.
	Coloring Eggs  Follow these food safety tips for coloring eggs and hiding them for an egg hunt.
	Turkey: Safe Thawing and Cooking  Food safety tips for handling, thawing, roasting, storing, and reheating turkey.
	Refrigerator and Freezer Storage Chart This chart gives short, conservative storage times to protect you from food spoilage (what you risk in long refrigeration) and from taste loss (what happens when food is left too long in the freezer).
	Use Proper Cooking Temperatures to Ensure Safe Food

Food safety posters

• Don't Wash Your Chicken!
  Washing chicken, even with a slow stream of water, can cause dangerous germs to splash from the raw meat onto other surfaces. These germs can then get onto other foods, like lettuce, that will not be cooked to kill germs before eating. Cooking meats to the recommended safe temperature will kill all germs present; meats do not need to be washed. 
   

Handwashing

	Don't Forget to Wash This simple poster (available in two color options) shows six simple steps to washing hands.
	Handwashing with a Nail Brush Eight steps to washing hands using a nail brush poster that could be hung in restrooms.
	Hand Hygiene How-To Poster This letter sized poster shows the six steps for washing hands with soap and water or two for cleaning with alcohol-based hand sanitizers.
	Clean Your Hands! Poster This 11x17 poster shows the six steps for washing hands with soap and water or two for cleaning with alcohol-based hand sanitizers.

• Comprehensive List of all Handwashing Posters and Print Materials
  Signs, posters, brochures, manuals, curricula, and other hand hygiene materials that you can print and use.

Business food safety fact sheets

• Food Code Fact Sheets: Food Businesses 
  Minnesota Food Code, and Minnesota food safety for businesses fact sheets.

Illness awareness materials

	Illness Reporting for Food Service Fact Sheet  Fact sheet for food workers and food managers. Also available in Spanish/English and Somali/English translations.
	Employee Illness Decision Guide (PDF) Ask these three questions to decide if employees' duties should be modified due to illness. Employee Illness Decision Guide in Spanish (PDF)
	Employee Illness Card: Do you have vomiting and/or diarrhea? (PDF)
	Employee Illness Log (PDF) This log can be used to track and report employee illnesses. Employee Illness Log in Hmong/English (PDF) Employee Illness Log in Somali/English (PDF) Employee Illness Log in Spanish/English (PDF)
	Food Employee Illness Guidelines (PDF) An illness symptoms action guidance chart showing illnesses/conditions, the action foodworkers should take, criteria for returning to work, and other helpful information.
	11 x 17: Employees: Report Your Illness Poster (PDF) 8 1/2 x 11: Employees: Report Your Illness Poster (PDF)
	Persons-In-Charge: You Must Report Customer Complains of Illness Poster (PDF)
	Poster alerting employees that they must not work in the food establishment if they have vomiting or diarrhea, they must tell the person in charge if they are sick, and they can not return to work for at least 24 hours after symptoms are gone. This poster is available for download in five languages.   Attention Poster (PDF)   Chinese Mandrin (PDF) Hmong (PDF) Somali (PDF) Spanish (PDF)
	Employees Keep Your Customers and Your Coworkers Healthy Poster (PDF) Poster alerting employees that they must not work in the food establishment if they have vomiting or diarrhea, they must tell the person in charge if they are sick, and they can not return to work for at least 24 hours after symptoms are gone.
	The Keep Yourself and Your Guests Safe and Keep Yourself and Your Consumers Safe posters are available in a variety of size variations and languages. These posters provide a simple message for all persons working in the food handling trade. 11 x 17: Keep Yourself and Your Guests Safe (PDF) Hmong (PDF) Somali (PDF) Spanish (PDF)   8 1/2 x 11: Keep Yourself and Your Guests Safe (PDF) Hmong (PDF) Somali (PDF) Spanish (PDF) 11 x 17: Keep Yourself and Your Consumers Safe (PDF) 8 1/2 x 11: Keep Yourself and Your Consumers Safe (PDF)

• Foodworker Illness Awareness
  More information, signs, and other materials about foodworker illness and prevention.

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• Foodborne Illness Print Materials 
  Fact sheets, signs, posters and other materials on foodborne illness that you can print and use.
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  • Cryptosporidiosis (Cryptosporidium) Fact Sheet
     
  • E. coli O157:H7 and HUS Fact Sheet
     
  • Giardiasis Fact Sheet
     
  • Listeriosis Fact Sheet
     
  • Norovirus Fact Sheet
     
  • Salmonellosis Fact Sheet
     
  • Scombroid Fish Poisoning
     
  • Shigellosis Fact Sheet 
     
  • Toxoplasmosis Fact Sheet
     
  • Vibrio Infection Fact Sheet
     
  • Yersinia Fact Sheet
    
     
• Preventing Illness Associated with Animal Contact Print Materials
  Signs, posters and other materials that you can print and use about staying healthy on field trips to farms and petting zoos, chicks and salmonella, backyard poultry, and how to stay healthy around household pets. 
  
   
• Waterborne Illness Print Materials
  Fact sheets, posters, and other materials about waterborne illnesses that you can print and use.