UMD’s Food Safety Training Lab featured on ABC’s 20/20: VIDEO

The University of Maryland’s Joint Institute for Food Safety and Applied Nutrition (JIFSAN) was recently featured as part of a special report for ABC’s 20/20 called “The Dirt on Dining Out.” ABC’s Elisabeth Leamy conducted an experiment at JIFSAN’s International Food Safety Training Lab to demonstrate how E. coli is spread through improper hand washing.

You can view the full 20/20 report below:

Here, Leamy demonstrates proper hand washing techniques:

JIFSAN is a research and education program administered jointly by the College of Agriculture and Natural Resources at the University of Maryland and the United States Food and Drug Administration. For more information visit http://jifsan.umd.edu/.