Question: . How Do You Know The Glassware Is For Food? Non-food? What Items Can You Cook Or Prepare Foods In? O Where Will They Be Located When You Arrive At Lab? O Where Will You Clean Them After The Lab? O Where Will You Put Them After They Are Cleaned? • What Should You Use To Pick Up Hot Things? • Where Is The Eyewash Station? • Where Is The Shower? …

. How do you know the glassware is for food? Non-food? What items can you cook or prepare foods in? o Where will they be located when you arrive at lab? o Where will you clean them after the lab? o Where will you put them after they are cleaned? • What should you use to pick up hot things? • Where is the eyewash station? • Where is the shower? EXPERIMENT 1: FOOD VS. NON-FOOD In homes as well as kitchens, containers for foods should be separate from containers for non- food items. This prevents contamination, which will help keep you and others safe. However, it can also be challenging-both in homes as well as in food laboratories. In a home, you might have plastic food containers for storing leftover meals–but those same containers may be very convenient for storing things like paint or personal care products. If you do not carefully separate and label these containers, you could accidentally eat something toxic. In a food laboratory, we use both edible ingredients, as well as reagents and concentrated ingredients that might be toxic. Most science laboratories can simply implement a rule that you never eat or drink in the lab-that does not work for food labs. Thus, we need ways to identify and segregate the food safe and non-food safe materials and containers. One suggestion is to purchase different colors or types of glassware for food items vs. non-food items. These should be stored separately, with large, obvious labels to indicate that some glassware is only for use with food. Another option is to use disposable items for foods, so you know they can only be used once. We will typically use disposable items and kitchen-type glassware (bowls, not beakers) in this lab. No matter how you decide to keep your food containers and non-food containers separated, you should always label a container when you fill it with something. The label should give: what is in the container (NO ABBREVIATIONS! Spell it out), your initials, and the date (including the year!). For on campus students, also include the course number and your lab section, Also consider how you will know if things are clean, and what you can use to clean food safe vs. non-food safe items. For example, the same sponge should not be used in a bathroom as in the kitchen- and the same towel should not be used to wipe up a floor and then used to dry a bowl for food. Finally, think about safety when handling hot items. In general, avoid using towels to pick up hot pans. If the towel is even slightly wet, that water can be instantly vaporized into steam-which will burn you. Look for hot pads or oven mitts for handling hot items, keep the pads or mitts dry, and make sure these are never used to wipe up spills.