Leftovers can be dangerous: How to keep your Thanksgiving meal safe

We all love Thanksgiving leftovers, but what's hiding in your fridge could do more harm than good. Preventing illness starts right in the kitchen.

So, we take you inside a medical school classroom that uses spatulas instead of stethoscopes to learn about safe food handling.

First, every kind of meat has its own cooking temperature to kill bacteria. So, use a thermometer.

Next, for leftovers, keep fish for about two days, and meats four to five days, but the smell test is even more important.

It may look like a commercial kitchen in a restaurant, but it’s the inside of a classroom for medical students. At Tulane's Goldring Center for Culinary Medicine, future doctors are learning illness prevention is just as important as treatment.

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