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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


� 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


� 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


� 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


� Five foodborne risk factors targeted

� Improper Cooking

� Improper Holding/Cooling

� Contamination Equipment/Protection From � Contamination Equipment/Protection From

Contamination

� Poor Personal Hygiene

� Unapproved Sources


� 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

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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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