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Letter: Letters : . . . . .

Published 24 January 1998

From Alan Reilly, WHO

Geneva

The WHO recommendations for cooking foods are that “all parts of the food
must reach at least 70 °C to kill all pathogens”. This is one of the WHO’s
“Ten Golden Rules for Safe Food Preparation” which you could bring to the
attention of your readers.

Issue no. 2118 published 24 January 1998

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