Wash your hands thoroughly with lemon and soap before handling foods.
Check your refrigerator temperature: Temperature below 40 degrees F slows the growth of most bacteria. So keep your refrigerator at or below 40 degrees F and your freezer at or below 0 degrees F.
Never taste food to see if they are safe. Most food bacteria cannot be seen, Smelled or tasted.
Cook food thoroughly to the right temperature.
Use plastic vegetable cutting boards according to FDA recommendations.
Use of Microwaves Ovens: As far as vegetables, cooking them in water robs some of their nutritional value, because the nutrients leach out into the cooking water.
For Example, Boiled broccoli loses glucosinolate, the sulfur-containing the compound which fights against the cancer cells. Microwave ovens cables and motor also gives of high magnetic fields often over 10 miligauss. Exposer of just 4 milligauss has been firmly linked to leukemia and carcinogenic too.Microwaving milk cereals and grains was found to convert some of their amino acids into carcinogenic substance.