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Is Your Chicken Making You Sick?

From the Show: Eat Right Radio
Summary: Is your chicken making you sick? Take this short quiz to find out.
Air Date: 9/8/15
Duration: 10
Host: Melanie Cole, MS
Guest Bio: Joan Salge Blake, MS, RDN
Salge Blake Joan 2086smallJoan Salge Blake is a clinical associate professor and director of the dietetic internship at Boston University’s Sargent College of Health and Rehabilitation Sciences. In 2012, she was nominated by the University for the U.S. Professor of the Year Award and previously received the University’s prestigious Whitney Powers Excellence in Teaching Award.

Blake is the author of Nutrition & You (Pearson 2015); Nutrition & You: Core Concepts to Good Health (Pearson 2010); and Eat Right the E.A.S.Y. Way (Simon & Schuster 1991), as well as co-author of Nutrition: From Science to You (Pearson 2014).

Blake is a past recipient of the Massachusetts Dietetic Association’s Recognized Young Dietitian of the Year Award and was named the Academy’s 2007 Outstanding Dietetic Educator. In 2009, she received the Academy’s Outstanding Dietitian award. Blake was named by Good Housekeeping magazine “The Most Trusted Person to Follow on Twitter” for healthful eating advice and has conducted over 1,000 media interviews on nutrition.

She is a summa cum laude graduate of Montclair State University and earned a master’s degree from Boston University, where she is working toward a doctorate in educational media and technology.
Is Your Chicken Making You Sick?
Chicken can potentially be very dangerous.

Ask yourself this question: "Am I doing all I can to keep my chicken safe?"

For instance, do you wash your chicken before you cook it? 

Do you sometimes defrost your chicken on the counter top or kitchen table?

In this segment, Joan Salge Blake, MS, discusses the food safety risks of storing, defrosting and preparing chicken.