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FDA SOUTHEAST REGION ANNUAL
FOOD SAFETY SEMINAR
November 7-10, 2011
Developing a Food Safety
And Defense WorkshopAnd Defense Workshop
JoAnn PittmanRegional Public Affairs Specialist
U. S. Food and Drug Administration
Office of Regulatory Affairs
Presentation Objectives
� Describe the development of FDA’s Food Safety
and Defense Workshop
� Show how the workshop supports FDA’s Food
Safety Modernization Act (FSMA) foodborneSafety Modernization Act (FSMA) foodborne
disease prevention cornerstone
� Provide an example of FDA collaboration with
other government and non-government
entities on public health matters
Agenda
� Food Safety - An Essential Priority
� Maintaining and Improving Food Safety
� Foodborne Disease Prevention
� Food Safety and Defense Workshop
� Workshop Audience and Objectives� Workshop Audience and Objectives
� Workshop Format
� What’s Next
Food Safety – An Essential Priority
� American consumer food supplies
� Food illness is a significant health burden
� Foodborne illness is not just a stomach ache
� Adverse financial and economic impacts
Maintaining and Improving Food Safety
� Challenging dynamics
� New food sources and new hazards
� New disease-causing organisms
� More complex production/processing and
distribution methodsdistribution methods
� Globalization of the food supply
� Consumer demand for less processed foods
� More food service providers and retail food
establishments
Maintaining and Improving Food Safety
� Response to Challenges
� FDA’s Proactive and comprehensive food
protection plan
� Food Safety and Modernization Act (FSMA)
� New authorities and mandates
� Prevention is the cornerstone
Foodborne Disease Prevention
� Modifying behavior of food employees
� Key component of foodborne disease prevention
� An effective food safety training program achieves � An effective food safety training program achieves
recurring proper food safety practices
� Unfortunately, too often this outcome is not
achieved
Food Safety and Defense Workshop
� FDA Center for food Safety and Applied
Nutrition (CFSAN)
� Office of Food Defense, Communications and
Emergency Response: FY 2006, Call for Food
Defense Project Proposals from FDA ORA Defense Project Proposals from FDA ORA
Public Affairs Specialists (PAS)
� FDA Project Proposal Team
� Atlanta District Public Affairs Specialist
� Southeast Region Retail Food Specialists
Food Safety and Defense Workshop
� Workshop development: Team expanded
� Georgia Environment Health Association
� Georgia Department of Agriculture� Georgia Department of Agriculture
� Georgia Food Safety and Defense Task Force
� Metro Atlanta County Health Departments
� Workshop completed: First delivery in 2006
Food Safety and Defense Workshop
� Audience
� Small independent retail and food service
establishments
� Represent the largest majority of food
establishmentsestablishments
� Have less resources for quality assurance
and food safety programs
� Hardest to reach by traditional regulatory
initiatives
� Owners, managers and employees
Food Safety and Defense Workshop
� Workshop development objectives
� Create training materials and methods of
instructions to make food safety and food defense
training more effective at changing behaviortraining more effective at changing behavior
� Structure training materials and techniques toward
influencing food service and retail establishment
employees to implement and practice on a
continual basis what they are taught about food
defense and foodborne disease prevention
Food Safety and Defense Workshop
� Five foodborne risk factors targeted
� Improper Cooking
� Improper Holding/Cooling
� Contamination Equipment/Protection From � Contamination Equipment/Protection From
Contamination
� Poor Personal Hygiene
� Unapproved Sources
Food Safety and Defense Workshop
� Design emphasis
� Possible and likely consequences to customers,
employees and food establishments when proper
food safety practices are not implementedfood safety practices are not implemented
� Interactive and non-threatening
� Multi-dimensional
� Hands-on-demonstrations
Workshop Format
�Facility
� Large Ballroom� Large Ballroom
� About 70
attendees
� Areas for Five (5)
food safety
breakout stations
Workshop Format
� Agenda
� Welcome and Pre-workshop Assessment
� Headlines You Don’t Want to Make
� Five Food Safety Risks Workstation Breakouts
� Defending Your Food Against Intentional � Defending Your Food Against Intentional
Contamination
� Post Workshop Assessment
� Distribution of Training/Demonstration materials
Workshop Format
� Welcome, introductions and
pre-workshop assessment
Workshop Format
� Consequences of improper food
safety practices
� Presentation
“Headlines You “Headlines You
Don’t want to
make”
� Legal/financial
penalties & costs
� Recalls - Damage
to reputation
Workshop Format
� Improper cooking
� Checking
Temperature
� Safe Cooking Temps
for Different for Different
Products
Workshop Format
� Improper
Holding/Cooling
� How to Cool Foods
� Risks and Results for
Different Methods
Workshop Format
� Contaminated
Equipment/Protection
From Contamination
� Three Compartment Sink
� Sani Buckets
� Demonstrated Testing
� Proper Food Storage
Workshop Format
� Poor Personal
Hygiene
� Proper Hand Washing
� No Bare Hand
Contact With Ready
to Eat Food
� Employee
Health Policy
Workshop Format
� Approved Sources
� Foods Obtained
from Sources that
Comply with Law Comply with Law
� Labeling and
Packaging
Compliance
� Hermetically
Sealed Containers
Workshop Format
� Food Defense
� ALERT & Employees
FIRST
� Real World Examples of
Need for Food Defense
5 TH ANNUAL FDA FOOD SAFETY
AND DEFENSE WORKSHOP
Charlotte, North CarolinaCharlotte, North Carolina
August 17, 2011
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FDA Food Safety and Defense Workshop Team
Food and Drug Administration
� Center for Food Safety and Applied Nutrition
� Office of Regulatory Affairs (ORA)� Southeast Regional Food and Drug Director
� Division of Human Resource Development
� Southeast Region Emergency Response and Preparedness� Southeast Region Emergency Response and Preparedness
� Atlanta District Office Director, Public Affairs Office
� Southeast Region, State Cooperative Programs, Director
� Southeast Region, State Cooperative Programs, Retail Food Specialists
� Pacific Region, Public Affairs Office
� Pacific Region, State Cooperative Programs, Retail Food Specialists
� New England District, Public Affairs Office
� Northeast Region, State Cooperative Programs, Retail Food Specialists
FDA Food Safety and Defense Workshop Team
Collaborating Stakeholders
� Buena Vista Consulting
� Marler Clark LLP PS
� Georgia Department of Agriculture
� Georgia Environmental Health Association
� Georgia Fulton County Department of Health � Georgia Fulton County Department of Health
� Georgia Food Safety and Defense Task Force
� Georgia DeKalb County Health Department
� Georgia Gwinnett County Health Department
� North Carolina Restaurant and Lodging Association
� North Carolina Charlotte Area Hotel Association
� North Carolina Mecklenburg County Health Department
� Association of Food and Drug Officials (AFDO)
� Association of Food and Drug Officials of the Southern States (AFDOSS)
What’s Next
� Increasing Workshop Scope and Effectiveness
� Expand food risk factors breakout sessions
� Make workshops portable
� Facilitate integration into food establishment’s � Facilitate integration into food establishment’s
ongoing food safety and defense training programs
� Continue adding partners and increase workshop
coverage to other FDA regions
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