Emergency Home Preparation

SAFE DISPOSAL OF SPOILED HOME-CANNED FOOD


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Disposing of spoiled food

Every home canner will occasionally have jars that spoil on the shelf. The need for safety here can't be overemphasized. The organisms that spoil canned food are uniformly poisonous to humans, especially in the quantity present in a bad jar of canned food.

The most potent spoilage organism in low-acid foods is botulism, which produces a powerful neurotoxin that will shut down your nervous system. Low-acid foods that have spoiled should be disposed of with the utmost caution because he botulism toxin can be absorbed through the skin. I'm going to detail the most cautious handling methods I know. ---CONTINUED at LINK, above ---

How to Tell When Your Canned Foods Become Spoiled?
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Have you ever opened a can you made a year before, and you didn’t know whether it was spoiled or not? Whether to throw it away or just remove – for example the mold – and consume the rest? I can’t even remember the number of times when I found myself in this situation.

For those of you who don’t know: Eating spoiled canned foods can result in death!!! --- CONTINUED at LINK, above ---