Materials:

One minute video clip of Alyssa Milano speaking on food safety: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZLB0D-S7qeM
Partnership for Food Safety Educations website: www.fightbac.org
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention_Food Safety: https://www.cdc.gov/foodsafety/

Assignment steps:
Step 1: Watch video: Alyssa Milano on Food Safety: 

Step 2: Access information related to safe food handling at FightBac.org and the CDC. Although students may browse the entire site, they should focus the majority of their time reading the sections entitled, Clean, Separate, Cook, and Chill.
Step 3: Students will research a recent outbreak of foodborne illness in the news and write a written report. Although students may include additional information, the following information is required:

News source
Date of news report
Number of individuals affected
Food source
Microorganism causing the illness
Symptoms of illness
How could this foodborne illness have been prevented?

Step 4: Within the written report, students should also address these points:

Define foodborne illness in your own words
Identify a favorite food that would be classified as a potentially hazardous food
Give examples of cross-contamination of food
Provide at least one recommendation from each of the 4 core practices (e.g. prior to cooking, store chicken in refrigerator at 40 F or lower).

At the conclusion of this assignment, students will be able to:

Describe the scope of foodborne illness in the United States
Describe four core food handling practices to reduce the risk of foodborne illness
Identify foods most likely to be associated with foodborne illness