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Tim Lucas, News Services, 919/515-3470 or [email protected]
March 23, 1998
NC State Web Site Rated Among the Best for Food Safety News
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Worried about food safety? A new Web site launched at North Carolina State University makes it easy for you to quickly get answers to your questions, in language you can understand.
The site is located at http://www.ces.ncsu.edu/depts/foodsci/agentinfo. It's the brainchild of Dunn, N.C., native Melissa Taylor, a food safety education and communication specialist with the North Carolina Cooperative Extension Service at NC State.
"Our goal was to design a site where you don't need a PhD to find the information you're looking for," Taylor says. "All you have to do is click on the food group you're interested in, and you'll automatically be linked to pages with the most current, comprehensive research findings and safety advice for that food."
Site users can select from eight food-group categories, including meat, poultry, eggs, dairy, fruits, vegetables, and fish and seafood. A link titled "Organisms of Concern" points out which harmful pathogens are likely to contaminate each type of food. Another link, "Hot Topics," brings up more links to articles on pesticides and food additives, foodborne illnesses and food science facts.
"With more than 150 different internal sites within our database, and links to more than 600 other Web pages, you literally have access to a world of information about food safety," Taylor says.
In a recent review of more than 200 Web sites by the Tufts University Nutrition Navigator, the NC State-based site earned perfect scores for timeliness, accuracy and depth of information provided, placing it in the top six of all sites reviewed and earning it a rating of "among the best" in the world by the review panel. "ëAmong the Best' ratings are awarded only to Web sites that serve as outstanding resources and maintain a high level of integrity and nutrition reporting," says Jeanne Goldberg, director of the Tufts University Center on Nutrition Communication. "The N.C. Cooperative Extension Service is a leader in the electronic delivery of food safety and nutrition information."
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