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"   Recently, the USDA launched more than 50 new Twitter feeds, one for each US state and territory. On these feeds the USDA will broadcast place-specific food recalls. Remember the egg, meat, spinach, and pistachio scares of recent years? To learn right away about food recalls like these that affect you, follow your state&amp;#039;s USDA feed. Here&amp;#039;s how it works:The Twitter handle for Texas is @TX_FSISAlert. If you don&amp;#039;t live in Texas (TX), swap in your state&amp;#039;s two letter abbreviation for &amp;quot;TX.&amp;quot; (For Example: Ohio would be @OH_FSISAlert; Hawaii would be @HI_FSISAlert.) Say you do live in Texas and follow the feed. Last week, the USDA tweeted at you a warning to avoid smoked sausage. Click the link at tweet&amp;#039;s end and you arrive at a USDA page explaining that 64,020 pounds of Eckrich Smoked Sausage were recalled because the producer neglected to label packages with allergy warnings (for whey and casein). Before these feeds went live on March 6, the USDA already had a Twitter food safety account @USDAFoodSafety. While it puts out valuable info about food safety issues (and about food in general), the state-specific feeds tweet only about recalls that affect you. Be sure to check out our story on how to keep food safe. For recipes and other ideas, follow Good Houseekeeping on Twitter. Written by Chris Malloy, freelance writer Want to learn how we put consumer products to the test and keep you safe? Sign up for a tour of the famous Good Housekeeping Research Institute. If you visit, be sure to say hello when you come by the Kitchen Appliances &amp;amp;amp; Technology Lab. "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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