CHICKEN is the most popular food dished up in Dorset homes, according to a poll to mark Food Safety Week, Best-loved meals include traditional chicken roast, with Indian style chicken curry and Mexican style chicken fajitas making up the top three.
The survey was commissioned to highlight the dangers of mishandling or under cooking chicken which can lead to food poisoning, which affects an estimated 280,000 people every year.
The FSA is asking people to:
• Bag and store raw chicken separately from other food, covered and chilled on the bottom shelf of the fridge
• Don't wash raw chicken: it splashes germs
• Wash everything that’s come in contact with raw chicken properly in soap and hot water, from your hands to chopping boards and any utensils
• Check it's cooked properly, with no pink meat, steaming hot all the way through, and that the juices run clear.
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