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About the National Data
Data
Data Source: Food Safety Survey, FDA
Baseline: 42.0 percent of consumers correctly followed the recommendation to use a food thermometer when cooking meat and poultry in 2016
Target: 47.0 percent
Methodology
Questions used to obtain the national baseline data
From the 2016 Food Safety Survey:
Numerator:
Do you have a food thermometer, such as a meat thermometer?- Yes
- No
For roasts or other large pieces of meat - how often do you use a thermometer when you cook roasts? Would you say…
- Always
- Often
- Sometimes
- Never
- Never cook the food
- Always
- Often
- Sometimes
- Never
- Never cook the food
- Always
- Often
- Sometimes
- Never
- Never cook the food
History
1. Effect size h=0.1 was chosen to correspond with 10% improvement from a baseline of 50%.