The Scotsman cartoon: Defrost Your Turkey Day

Illustration: Iain Greenplaceholder image
Illustration: Iain Green

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Today has been dubbed National Defrost Your Turkey Day amid research which shows nearly two-thirds of Scottish people risk food poisoning every year through unsafe thawing.

A Food Standards Agency survey discovered people who thaw their turkey on the kitchen counter, garage, garden shed or even in the bath.

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