Home & Family

Home and family safety are at the heart of community well-being. This section highlights Minnesota laws and stories about household safety, elder care, product recalls, and child protection. Our goal is to keep Central Minnesota families informed and empowered to safeguard their loved ones.

Safe Holiday: Making Thanksgiving Safe

With a week to go before the Thanksgiving holiday, it’s important that thoughts turn to food safety before it becomes an issue. More than 200,000 Americans get sick each day from what they eat, and…

By Mike Bryant

/ 25 Nov 2009

Safe Holiday : Cooking The Turkey

With the turkey dinner just days away, it’s important that consideration go into how the turkey is prepared. The turkey should be thawed completely. Enough time must be allowed to cook a…

By Mike Bryant

/ 24 Nov 2009

Popular Food Can Make You Sick

This past week, the Center for Science in the Public Interest released the list of foods that have the most reported food illnesses. Unfortunately, they may be most people’s favorites. This may mean…

By Mike Bryant

/ 23 Nov 2009

Safe Holiday: Picking Your Turkey

The key to the whole meal is picking the turkey. A recent government study suggests that that isn’t a simple task. “Last year USDA released data on turkey contamination that showed 90% of the…

By Mike Bryant

/ 23 Nov 2009

Real Stories Behind Food Poisoning

There is a real person behind every food poisoning. I’m reminded of that every time I sit down and talk to a family who has lost a loved one. So many times, we here at the InjuryBoard write this…

By Mike Bryant

/ 22 Nov 2009

Thursday: Minnesota Winter Awareness Week-

Sponsored annually by the Department of Public Safety Division of Homeland Security and Emergency Management (HSEM), last week was Winter Awareness Week. Each day was devoted to a different topic…

By Mike Bryant

/ 19 Nov 2009

Wednesday: Minnesota Winter Awareness Week – Fire Safety

Sponsored annually by the Department of Public Safety Division of Homeland Security and Emergency Management (HSEM), last week was Winter Awareness Week. Each day was devoted to a different topic…

By Mike Bryant

/ 18 Nov 2009

Tuesday: Minnesota Winter Awareness Week- Outdoor Safety

Sponsored annually by the Department of Public Safety Division of Homeland Security and Emergency Management (HSEM), last week was Winter Awareness Week. Each day was devoted to a different topic…

By Mike Bryant

/ 17 Nov 2009

Minnesota Winter Weather Awareness — November 09-13, 2009

Sponsored annually by the Department of Public Safety Division of Homeland Security and Emergency Management (HSEM) the past week was Winter Weather Awareness week. Each day was devoted to a…

By Mike Bryant

/ 15 Nov 2009

Jelly Belly Recalls 49 Flavors Jelly Belly Packages

The first week of November, Jelly Belly Candy Company did a nationwide recall of 7.5-ounce cylinder-style packages of 49 Flavors Jelly Belly jelly beans. The package is incorrectly labeled. The…

By Mike Bryant

/ 8 Nov 2009

Hunter Safety: Real Life Story Of Why It’s Important

If you are going hunting spend a little time reading the story in this week Minneapolis Tribune. It is the story of a hunting death from twenty years before of Kim Van Tassel. Mistaken for a deer…

By Mike Bryant

/ 4 Nov 2009

Great Website For Information About Our Food

If you spend some time looking around the Injuryboard website, you will find hundreds of articles about various issues with food. The peanut butter salmonella issue was covered from a number of…

By Mike Bryant

/ 1 Nov 2009