Thanksgiving Questions? USDA Meat and Poultry Hotline Staffs Live Experts from 8 a.m. to 2 p.m. ET on the Holiday
Thanksgiving is the largest meal most American households cook all year; last year more than 46 million turkeys were carved and eaten at Thanksgiving. The U.S. Department of Agriculture's Food Safety and Inspection Service (FSIS) reminds home cooks that a free hotline is there when the big meal gets overwhelming.
The USDA Meat and Poultry Hotline, 1-888-MPHotline (1-888-674-6854), is staffed regularly from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. Eastern, Monday through Friday, with live food safety experts available in English and Spanish. On Thanksgiving Day, November 26, the hotline is open from 8 a.m. to 2 p.m. Eastern.
FSIS has also built an online Thanksgiving toolkit covering brining, stuffing turkeys, deep frying a turkey, properly storing leftovers and preparing a bacteria-free Thanksgiving, plus videos on why it is not safe to wash a turkey and free publications including the Let's Talk Turkey brochure.
For leftovers, USDA's FoodKeeper app gives storage timelines for the refrigerator, freezer and pantry for more than 500 products, including baby food, dairy products and eggs, meat, poultry, produce and seafood, in English, Spanish and Portuguese.
Thanksgiving this year falls on November 26. First-time hosts may want to save the hotline number and the toolkit before the day itself gets hectic.
(Source: U.S. Department of Agriculture)
Source: U.S. Department of Agriculture
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