Read the passage from Food Safety Myths Exposed. Fact: Actually, rinsing meat, poultry, or seafood with water can increase your chance of food poisoning by splashing juices (and any bacteria they might contain) onto your sink and counters. The best way to cook meat, poultry, or seafood safely is to make sure you cook it to the right temperature. Which phrase from the passage contains the central idea? meat, poultry, or seafood your chance of food poisoning and any bacteria they might contain best way to cook meat, poultry, or seafood

your chance of food poisoning and any bacteria they might contain. This is the correct option. The focus is on avoiding making some food poisonous The opportunities to get food poisonous can go up if you do the wrong this: to rinse some food - poultry, meat or seafood -, which means to clean it with water. When the food is under water, the bateria from the food will go to the sink or the counters in the kitchen.

These options are not right:

-meat, poultry, or seafood: The passage talks about this food but the phrase does not say what about this food.

-best way to cook meat, poultry, or seafood. Cooking is mentioned but the passage does not develop it.

The answer is D: best way to cook meat, poultry, or seafood.

The phrase "best way to cook meat, poultry, or seafood" contains the central idea of the passage, which is dealing with preparaton for cooking, the cares of cleaning this kind of food by not using water to rinse it in the sink to avoid poisoning it. Finally, it presents the instructions on how to cook meat, poultry, or seafood safely, which is cooking to the right temperature.