Is your family recipe for canning foods safe?

Hello, I’m Amanda McNulty with Clemson Extension and Making It Grow. The Clemson Food Systems and Safety Agents often present classes to help you learn how to can foods safely. Improperly canned foods can develop botulism an extremely harmful toxin that can lead to death. Weirdly, this is the same bacteria used in Botox injections, those are formulas that are approved by the Food and Drug Administration. If you have a family recipe for canning foods, please check with the Food systems and Safety agents whom you can reach by calling the Clemson Home and Garden Center. Also, you can visit the Clemson website Carolina Canning to find classes on food preservation. Any canned good that is leaking or bulging, even one from the grocery store, should be thrown away. Don’t sample it – botulism is tasteless and odorless but potentially deadly.