Texas A&M AgriLife Extension observes June as National Safety Month. The month is dedicated to preventing causes of workplace injury. Spending so much time in our workplace lends itself to eating, cooking, and storing food in that workplace, so let’s take a look at the cornerstone of food safety in the lunchroom and the home kitchen, the refrigerator.Improperly stored food is one of the causes of 48 million cases of foodborne ill ness in the US each year. 128,000 of those cases lead to hospitalizations and 3,000 result in death.“We don’t think of foodborne illness as the cause of our ...