Results: Super Bowl food safety: Expert tips on how to not get sick from your party platters

More than 100 million Americans are expected to throw or attend a Super Bowl party this year, and foodborne illness is no joke. It can cause digestive trouble or even lead to hospitalization or death. About 1 in 6 Americans get sick each year from foodborne diseases and about 3,000 die, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention estimates. Have you ever gotten sick from a foodborne disease?

Food can go foul faster than you think. The USDA says if you can't control the temperature, there's a 2-hour limit. After that, it needs to go back in the fridge or oven. Meredith Carothers, food safety specialist at the United States Department of Agriculture, suggests setting a 2-hour timer on your phone to remind you and to use a food thermometer to make sure food reaches a safe internal temperature. If you host events, do you make sure to put cold things back in the fridge or warm up hot foods again every 2 hours?