The American Egg Board is using the designation of July as National Picnic Month to promote deviled eggs and egg salad sandwiches as suitable dishes for picnic baskets.

Justifiably the AEB recommends commonsense precautions for picnics:

• Using a well insulated clean cooler with adequate ice to maintain perishable foods below 40 F.
• Ensuring that foods that are frozen or stored under refrigeration, should be rapidly transferred to a picnic cooler.
• Uncooked meat and poultry should be separated from other foods if the picnic involves a barbeque.
• Maintaining the cold chain by regularly adding ice to coolers and, if possible, transporting coolers in the air-cooled passenger compartment and not the trunk where they are exposed to high temperature.