Food Safety Print Materials

Fact sheets, brochures, signs, and other materials that you can print and use.

Consumer food safety fact sheets

Food safety posters

• Don't Wash Your Chicken!
  Washing chicken, even with a slow stream of water, can cause dangerous germs to splash from the raw meat onto other surfaces. These germs can then get onto other foods, like lettuce, that will not be cooked to kill germs before eating. Cooking meats to the recommended safe temperature will kill all germs present; meats do not need to be washed.
  

Handwashing

• Handwashing with a Nail Brush
  Eight steps to washing hands using a nail brush poster that could be hung in restrooms.

• Hand Hygiene How-To Poster
  This letter sized poster shows the six steps for washing hands with soap and water or two for cleaning with alcohol-based hand sanitizers.

• Clean Your Hands! Poster
  This 11x17 poster shows the six steps for washing hands with soap and water or two for cleaning with alcohol-based hand sanitizers.

• Comprehensive List of all Handwashing Posters and Print Materials
  Signs, posters, brochures, manuals, curricula, and other hand hygiene materials that you can print and use.

Business food safety fact sheets

• Food Code Fact Sheets: Food Businesses
  Minnesota Food Code, and Minnesota food safety for businesses fact sheets.

Illness awareness materials

• Illness Reporting for Food Service Fact Sheet
  Fact sheet for food workers and food managers. Also available in Spanish/English and Somali/English translations.

• Employee Illness Decision Guide (PDF)
  Ask these three questions to decide if employees' duties should be modified due to illness.

• Employee Illness Log (PDF)
  This log can be used to track and report employee illnesses.
  • Employee Illness Log in Hmong/English (PDF)
  • Employee Illness Log in Somali/English (PDF)
  • Employee Illness Log in Spanish/English (PDF)

  

  • Food Employee Illness Guidelines (PDF)
    An illness symptoms action guidance chart showing illnesses/conditions, the action foodworkers should take, criteria for returning to work, and other helpful information.

  

  • 11 x 17: Employees: Report Your Illness Poster (PDF)
  • 8 1/2 x 11: Employees: Report Your Illness Poster (PDF)

  

  

  • Poster alerting employees that they must not work in the food establishment if they have vomiting or diarrhea, they must tell the person in charge if they are sick, and they can not return to work for at least 24 hours after symptoms are gone. This poster is available for download in five languages.
    
  • Attention Poster (PDF)
    
    • Chinese Mandrin (PDF)
    • Hmong (PDF)
    • Somali (PDF)
    • Spanish (PDF)

    

    • Employees Keep Your Customers and Your Coworkers Healthy Poster (PDF)
      Poster alerting employees that they must not work in the food establishment if they have vomiting or diarrhea, they must tell the person in charge if they are sick, and they can not return to work for at least 24 hours after symptoms are gone.

    

    • The Keep Yourself and Your Guests Safe and Keep Yourself and Your Consumers Safe posters are available in a variety of size variations and languages. These posters provide a simple message for all persons working in the food handling trade.
    • 11 x 17: Keep Yourself and Your Guests Safe (PDF)
      • Hmong (PDF)
      • Somali (PDF)
      • Spanish (PDF)
        
      • Hmong (PDF)
      • Somali (PDF)
      • Spanish (PDF)
      • Foodworker Illness Awareness
        More information, signs, and other materials about foodworker illness and prevention.