Food Safety: Science in Action
June 7 is World Food Safety Day! The theme of World Food Safety Day 2025 draws attention to the use of scientific knowledge as key to reducing illness, cutting costs and saving lives. Science is at the heart of food safety. It helps us understand what makes food unsafe and guides us on how to prevent foodborne diseases.
This World Food Safety Day, we’re celebrating YOU, the educators, communicators, and scientists who bring food safety to life every day. Your work puts science into action where it matters most: in classrooms, communities and kitchens.
To support your outreach efforts, we’re highlighting our free webinars and science-based resources you can trust.
Together, let’s continue building a smarter, safer food future!
Science-Based Food Safety Resources
Free Webinar Series for Educators
PFSE holds educational webinars throughout the year for public health, nutrition and food safety educators. Past topics have included food safety and nutrition, protecting older adults from foodborne illnesses, and safe food handling at large gatherings. Webinar recordings are available online.
Five Easy Tips to Help Prevent Food Poisoning (Video)
Share this short video highlighting five easy tips to help prevent food poisoning.
Home Food Safety Mythbusters
Common food safety myths originate from the misapplication of science, family tradition, or misinformation on social media. The Partnership created these social media graphics for consumers and educators to help debunk common home food safety myths.
Don’t Wing It
These simple poultry handling tips help households reduce the risk of illness from common germs that can cause food poisoning, such as Salmonella and Campylobacter. Here’s the Science Behind the Messages.
Go 40 or Below
Maintaining home refrigerators at 40° F or below is one of the most effective ways to reduce the risk of foodborne illness for elderly people and those who are pregnant. Here’s the Science Behind the Messages.
Safe Produce
Fresh fruits and vegetables may contain harmful germs that can make families sick, such as Salmonella, E. coli and Listeria. It’s important to select and prepare fresh produce safely. Here’s the Science Behind the Messages.
Safe Recipe Style Guide
Studies have found that consumers follow food safety instructions when they were written directly into their recipes. The Partnership launched the Safe Recipe Style Guide for use by people who develop recipes, cooking videos and recipe videos. This tool provides the images, text and video clips needed to add food safety prompts to written recipes and cooking videos.
This page highlights just a few of our dozens of free resources and downloads. If you don’t find what you’re looking for here, explore many more resources on this website or email us at info@fightbac.org.
