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Welcome to our online version of National Food Safety Education Month^SM 2002 (NFSEM). The Food and Drug Administration and the Food Safety and Inspection Service have joined with the restaurant and food service industry to encourage your participation in the 2002 observance of NFSEM. The goal of NFSEM is to educate the public about safe food handling practices.

Originated by the National Restaurant Association Educational Foundation's International Food Safety Council, NFSEM is now in its eighth year as an important food safety education focus for government and consumer organizations, as well as industry.

Our goal this year is to communicate to consumers that each of the food safety messages highlighted during the last four years, Clean, Separate, Cook, and Chill, are equally important and necessary to keep food safe. Our theme this year is Four Steps To Food Safety. This allows you to choose your food safety outreach focus from either of the past four years' messages. This year's online version of NFSEM contains a variety of ideas and tools for organizing food safety activities and events for various age groups this September and throughout the year. A "How To" section offers suggestions for putting your ideas into practice.

These tools are also available on the NFSEM 2002 CD-ROM. To order a copy please contact us by E-mail at fsis.outreach@usda.gov.

In observance of National Food Safety Education Month^SM, we will hold a conference on food safety education, "Thinking Globally-Working Locally." Please join us in Orlando, Florida, September 18-20, 2002. The conference is sponsored by the U.S. Department of Agriculture and U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, in cooperation with the Partnership for Food Safety Education. It will focus on the food safety education implications of the global nature of the U.S. food supply, while at the same time recognizing that worldwide food safety education is very much a local effort.

For registration information and conference updates, please refer to the "Thinking Globally—Working Locally" Web site at www.fsis.usda.gov/Orlando2002.

We hope you view NFSEM 2002 as an exceptional opportunity to focus your efforts on educating consumers about the critical role they play in food safety. We appreciate your interest and participation.

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