When Relatives Or Neighbors Provide Child Care UNIVERSITY PARK (Centre Co.) Are you thinking of hav ing a relative, neighbor, or Mend care for your child while you work? This can be a good choice. You already know the person and so does your child. Their home may be near yours. Your child may be used to going there. Think about these things ahead of time to prevent possible problems later on. • Find out how much it will cost and when you will be ex pected to pay. Relatives and Mends have bills to pay, too, and will need their payment on time. • Make sure to give the per son your work schedule, includ Wild Game Food Safety Brochures Help Hunters, Fishers UNIVERSITY PARK (Centre Co.) A Penn State Cooperative Extension food safety specialist has developed a comprehensive program to arm hunters and oth ers with important information on wild game food safety. The centerpiece of the pro gram is a set of five free publica tions addressing proper care and handling of wild game, fish, and ,f*~ T ■•'t-ifu-- 1-rf in, t I I ■-* • Wedding Invitations • Brochures • Business Cards • Sale Cards • Catalogs • Newsletters • Newspapers Arl Haas One East Main Street P.O. Box 527, Ephrata, PA 17522 717-733-6397 • Fax 717-733-6058 ing travel time to and from work to see if that fits with her sched ule. Give your child’s caregiver phone numbers where you can be reached at all times. • Think about what kind of child care arrangements you will make if your caregiver is sick or on vacation. • Ask how many children your relative, Mend, or neighbor is watching. If it’s four or more, not including her own children, she will need a certificate of reg istration from the Department of Public Welfare. Providers who care for more than six children, not including their own, must have a license from DPW. • Take your child for a visit birds. “With over a million licensed hunters in the state, many people rely on game meat to sustain them through the winter espe cially in rural areas,” said Cath erine Cutter, assistant professor of food science. “But game ani mals especially deer are known to carry E. Coli, and game birds can carry Salmonella. and have your relative or Mend spend time one-on-one with her. Step back a little and see how they get along. • Are your child rearing ideas the same? Find out about disci pline. Make sure you both agree on this issue. • See what kinds of play things are available. Are they ap propriate for your child’s age? • Talk about a daily schedule. Be sure there is time for both ac tive and quiet play. • There should be a safe area for your child to play outside. • Will nutritious meals and snacks be provided? • Where will your child nap? • See if medicines and toxic Since cleaning, dressing and butchering often are done in the field, airborne contaminants, weather, temperature and other factors can affect the safety of your product.” E. Coli 0157;H7 and Salmonel la are harmful bacteria found in the intestinal tracts of game, live stock, poultry and other animals. These pathogens can cause gas- trointestinal distress in hu mans and can be fatal to young children and older adults. “The publication series includes pamphlets on gamebirds, fish and veni son, designed to give hunt ers and fishers basic inform ation on what to do out in the field pointers to keep pathogens and bacterial growth down so they would have a better product,” Cutter said. “Two longer booklets expand on the in formation in the pamphlets and elaborate on field dress ing procedures for specific animals, with instructions on how to make sausages or jerky.” The series includes: • Venison, a brochure that identifies tools and utensils hunters should Lancaster Fanning, Saturday, December 2, 2000-B9 cleaning materials are in locked cabinets. • Any guns, weapons, or am munition must be stored sepa rately in locked cabinets. All caregivers in Pennsylvania can order free materials from Penn State Cooperative Exten >vc* COW^!fe, .y • 4 . V I lni Jr Jr ImIUP IWi carry, in addition to tips on field dressing, transporting and kitch en processing. • Fish, a brochure that pres ents safety guidelines for before and after the catch. Topics in clude transporting, processing and tips for smoking and freez ing. • Game Birds, a brochure that suggests the proper tools to take when hunting, as well as tips on field dressing, removing feathers and aging meat. • Proper Field Dressing and Handling of Wild Fish and Game, a 10-page booklet that ex plains the crucial steps in field dressing and butchering fish and game immediately after harvest. Diagrams illustrate techniques for deer and other large animals, as well as small game, wild tur key, waterfowl and fish. • Proper Processing of Wild Game and Fish, an 18-page booklet dedicated to the prepara tion of venison, birds, fish, and other game after it’s brought in from the field. Sections include the importance of temperature in controlling spoilage, butchering and cutting techniques, differ ences between aging, curing and smoking; procedures for canning game; and recipes for making jerkies and sausages. In addition to developing the sion’s Better Kid Care Program by calling, toll-free, 1-800-452-9108. If you have access to the In ternet, you can find information for parents and caregivers at the Better Kid Web site at www.bet terkidcare.psu.edu publications, Cutter recently con ducted a workshop to instruct Penn State Cooperative Exten sion agents from around the state in the latest techniques of held dressing, handling and butcher ing of wild game. The day-long training included updates on cur rent state hunting regulations from a representative of the Pennsylvania Game Commis sion. Agents learned to inspect game animals for disease, re ceived a presentation on canning of game meat from Chef Albert Wutsch of the Indiana Universi ty of Pennsylvania Academy of Culinary Arts, and sampled deer bologna and jerky made at the Penn State Meats Lab. Partici pants also saw a step-by-step demonstration of venison butch ering courtesy of Griffith Broth ers White Tail Ridge of Hunting don, Pa. “Armed with this knowledge, extension agents can offer in depth information to people in their counties through work shops, phone calls and other means,” Cutter said. “Our goal is to provide the state’s hunters with convenient resources for food safety and hunting informa tion.” Single copies of the wild game meat safety publication series are available free of charge by contacting your county Penn State Cooperative Ex tension office, or by calling the College of Agriculture Sciences Publications Distribu tion Center at (814) 865-6713. 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