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Summer food safety tips to protect your picnics and barbeques

While cyclosporiasis has dominated headlines this summer, there are other precautions you should take at picnics and barbeques to make sure your summer fun isn’t ruined by foodborne illness.

Here & Now‘s Robin Young talks with infectious disease specialist Dr. Todd Ellerin about summer food safety.

This article was originally published on WBUR.org.

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