Health Services - Health Tips

The One-two-three's of hand washing.

Wash your hands properly before and after handling raw potentially hazardous foods such as chicken, beef, fish or seafood.

Wash your hands before handling ready to eat foods such as lettuce, tomato, cheese, pastries and other foods, which are not heated before they are consumed.

Wash your hands after performing any bodily function such as using the restroom, coughing or sneezing before you handle food.

Proper hand washing requires that you use:

  • Hot and cold running water for twenty (20) seconds or more while using soap; then

  • Rinse off the soap; and

  • Dry the hands with a disposable paper towel or an automatic hand dryer.

Temperature Tips

Cooking temperature Chicken 165 º F
Cooking temperature Ground Beef/ Pork 155º F
Raw eggs 145º F
Hot holding temperature 140º F
Potentially hazardous foods kept in the temperature range between 41º F to 140º F for more than four (4) hours can allow bacteria to grow to harmful levels.
Refrigerator Temperature 41º F
Freezing 0ºF

City of Duncanville, Texas
Health Services
203 E. Wheatland Road
P.O. Box 380280
Duncanville, TX 75138-0280
972-780-4963

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