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July 3, 2009 Contact: Nutrition professor Chris Rosenbloom featured on CNN Health Minute
ATLANTA — Chris Rosenbloom, professor of nutrition at Georgia State University, is featured on CNN’s Health Minute today (July 3) providing safe grilling tips for a tasty, but healthy Fourth of July celebration. Standing beside a barbecue grill filled with turkey breast, Rosenbloom shares advice about how to correctly clean a grill and use a meat thermometer and the importance of marinating meat to provide protection from chemicals found in smoke. She suggests using leaner meats and pre-cooking meat in the oven and finishing it on the grill to reduce chemicals that contain cancer-causing compounds. “You’re cooking the meat more rapidly and not having to have it on the grill quite as long,” Rosenbloom said. CNN also posted several of Rosenbloom’s tips on the CNN.com consumer tips blog, including avoiding cross contamination by using separate plates for raw, cooked meat and vegetables. And once a brush has touched raw meat do not dip it back into a bottle of barbecue sauce or use it again on cooked meat, Rosenbloom said, because just one dip of a brush tainted with raw meat can contaminate an entire bottle or transfer bacteria to already-cooked goods. With temperatures expected to be more than 90 degrees on July Fourth, Rosenbloom also has rules for storing food properly. “There’s a two-hour rule, but that rule changes to a one-hour rule when it’s really hot and humid so get that food in the refrigerator whether it’s uncooked or cooked within one hour,” Rosenbloom said. Rosenbloom’s interview is also scheduled to run on CNN at 7:55 a.m. on Saturday and Sunday. To view Rosenbloom on CNN’s Health Minute, visit http://www.cnn.com/video/#/video/health/2009/07/03/hm.grilling.safety.cnn.
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