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Foodborne illness, or food poisoning, is an ever-present threat to South Dakotan’s public health. The Centers for Disease Control estimates each year roughly 1 in 6 Americans gets sick with a foodborne illness. In South Dakota this extrapolates to 136,000 South Dakotans.

Balancing your checkbook may seem like a tedious and useless task when you can just check your balance online. But, there happens to be a few good reasons to balance with your records every month.

Food borne illnesses never go on vacation – they are persistent and can even follow you on your camping weekends.  While grilling meat and poultry, a thermometer is the only way to confirm that minimum cooking temperatures have been met.  It is important that you use a food thermometer to make sure harmful bacteria like Salmonella, Camplobacter, and E. coli 0157:H7 are destroyed.

Much press has been given to the challenges of parenting teenagers.  Parenting teenagers requires balancing a child’s growing independence with the adult’s responsibility to set limits.  Through the teenage years, parents must learn to let go of control yet still provide guidance and support as teenagers learn self discipline, responsibility, and the basic skills they need to survive as an adult.

It is critical that science is utilized to ensure that food is handled safety from the farm to the table.