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By HELEN SMITH

Extension Agent, Home Economics

Occasional Quantity Cooks are volunteers who prepare, serve or handle food at any event. These can be once a year such as a community festival or for a fund-raising event such as a pancake breakfast or spaghetti dinner.

There is a lot to team about safe food preparation and handling. If you don’t work for a commercial restaurant you may not be aware of all the special techniques involved in cooking for a large group of people.

It’s scary to think about people getting sick from your meal, but it can happen. Foodboume illness strikes Americans more than 12 million times a year! More than three-quarters of the outbreaks are blamed on food

94.8%