Healthy Santa Cruz County - food safety

Recommended Websites

• FoodSafety.gov
  FoodSafety.gov is the gateway to food safety information provided by government agencies. The site is managed by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, and provides tips on food safety, articles, alerts, videos, podcasts, and blogs.
  Browse related subjects: diet, food safety, healthy eating
• How to Understand and Use the Nutrition Facts Label
  Special features: Reproducible illustrated brochures explaining nutrition fact labels. From FDA/Center for Food Safety & Applied Nutrition.
  Browse related subjects: diet, food safety, healthy eating, nutrition, recommended website
• My Pyramid
  Special features: Design a personal food pyramid (adults and kids); current dietary guidelines; free promotional materials; Spanish available. From: US Dept. of Agriculture.
  Browse related subjects: diet, food pyramid, food safety, healthy eating, healthy lifestyle, nutrition, recommended website
• Nutrition.gov
  Provides easy, online access to government information on food and human nutrition for consumers. Topics include: weight management, dietary guidelines, diet supplements, vegetarian nutrition information, food safety, calorie counter, and much more. From: US Dept. of Agriculture.
  Browse related subjects: diet, food safety, healthy eating, healthy lifestyle, nutrition, recommended website
• ToxTown
  An interactive introduction to "toxic chemicals and environmental health risks you might encounter in everyday life, in everyday places." Classroom activities and reproducible materials for teachers and parents. From: National Library of Medicine.
  Browse related subjects: ecology, environment, food safety, hazardous waste, healthy lifestyle, hotline, poisons, recommended website, toll-free numbers, toxins
• U.S. Food and Drug Administration
  U.S. Food and Drug Administration's Food Safety Page.
  Browse related subjects: diet, food safety, healthy eating

Databases

• Health and Wellness Resource Center
  Provides health-related information from more than 700 health/medical journals and hundreds of pamphlets (many with full text), 2,200 magazines, and various reference sources.
• MEDLINE® PubMed
  PubMed is a service of the U.S. National Library of Medicine that includes citations and abstracts from MEDLINE, the world's largest database of clinical medical literature. The database indexes more than 4,800 biomedical journals published in the United States and 70 other countries. Citations date back to the 1950s. Some citations link out to relevant information outside of Medline, or to the full text of articles. Tutorials are available and highly recommended for inexperienced users.