A local nutrition educator is promoting food safety during the Thanksgiving season. 

On the WHOW Morning Show Tuesday, Caitlin Mellendorf, nutrition educator for the University of Illinois Extension in DeWitt, Macon, and Piatt counties told Regional Radio they get so many questions on food safety this time of year, that they've created a website devoted to it. 

Mellendorf states there are 4 major components to being food safe. Those are clean, separate, cook, and chill. This applies to all cooking, not just during the holiday season. 

Check out the extension's Thanksgiving food safety website at extension.illinois.edu/turkey. Keep it to Regional Radio tomorrow evening for more information on staying food-safe this Thanksgiving.