Turns out the potato salad isn’t the biggest thing to fear at a cookout.

Spoiler alert: not necessarily.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. ‘Home cooks tend to underestimate how cross contamination can spread bacteria across the kitchen,’ says Dr Siyun Wang.Composite: ...

Even if you're careful in the kitchen, you may be spreading harmful bacteria without realizing it. Cross-contamination is one of the most common ways foodborne illness spreads at home, and it often ...