Articles & resources

Food Safety

Acrylamide in our food (high temperature cooking of starchy foods)

Food microbiological safety

How safe is your food?
T
he Choice website has an instructive quiz on safe food preparation at home.

Mad Cow Disease

Better Health Channel Fact sheets
- Eggs should be bought and stored with care
- Food irradiation
- Food pesticides and other chemicals
- Food poisoning
- Food safety in health care facilities
- Food safety in schools
- Food safety when cooking
- Food safety when eating out
- Food safety when shopping
- Food should be stored with care
- Fungi poisoning
- Listeria is caused by contaminated food

 

 

 

The Healthy Eating Club is the nutrition content provider for the Victorian Government Health website
"Better Health Channel" (BHC) in Australia. The BHC produce Fact Sheets with our help for the general public. They have kindly given us permission to link these articles to our website. The relevant BHC fact sheets are linked under each heading as well as under one heading at the bottom of the "Food & Nutrition Information" index page.