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October 2, 2001 |
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FDA ANNOUNCES FOOD SAFETY GRANTS
The Food and Drug Administration today advanced the Nation's food safety by
supporting 13 imaginative programs that address the risks of foodborne disease
in settings as varied as elementary schools, shellfish inspections, establishments
with immigrant food handlers, and while river boating and hiking through the
backcountry.
The programs, which are sponsored by state and local regulatory agencies, were
awarded FDA grants totaling $500,000 during Septembers Food Safety Education
Month. The FDA grants are part of the Federal Food Safety program designed to
complement, develop, or improve state and local food safety programs.
The awards, which may be transferred to other state and local jurisdictions,
are for a one-year period and are focused on two key areas: inspection techniques
and education/health information dissemination.
The grants awarded and the grantees are:
- Alaska Department of Environmental Conservation, "Risk Focused Inspection
Training and Evaluation" -- expands a risk-focused inspection protocol
implemented for medium and high-risk food service establishments.
- Bond County Health Department (IL), "Develop a HACCP Training Manual
for Food Service Establishments" -- creates a food service training manual,
to increase the knowledge and use of HACCP management systems in food service
establishments.
- Brown Nicollet Environmental Health (MN), "The Food Handler's Card
Project" -- designs and implements a pilot certification program for
all workers in food service establishments in four Minnesota counties.
- Coconino County Department of Health Services (AZ), "Food Safety Training
Program for Backcountry Operators" -- creates a home study course based
on the current FDA Food Code for river guides and other backcountry outfitters
nationwide.
- Florida Department of Agriculture & Consumer Services "Electronic
Inspection System" -- develops and produces a portable, electronic pen
tablet and custom software program that can be used by state inspectors in
states that are members of the Interstate Shellfish Sanitation Conference.
- Kansas Department of Health & Environment, "Focus on Food Safety:
Tomorrow's Training Today" -- develops a multi-task project utilizing
a new food safety interactive website/CD-ROM, and an electronic presentation
for food service workers, students, and consumers.
- Kern County Environmental Health Services Department (CA), "Education
and Health Information Dissemination" -- creates a unique educational
program of providing food safety training to teenagers and to elementary school
students, through the public school system.
- Maricopa County Environmental Services Department (AZ), "Interactive
Computer Based Training for Regulatory Staff" -- creates an interactive
CD-ROM that can be used for training environmental health specialists to conduct
inspections in food establishments.
- Massachusetts Department of Public Health, "Standard HACCP & Risk
Control Instruction for Retail Food Regulators" -- designed to standardize
instruction for local and state retail food regulators in the initiation,
evaluation and verification of HACCP and risk control plans in retail food
establishments.
- Multnomah County Health Department (OR), "Food Handler Training and
Testing for Non-Native English Speakers" -- addresses shortcomings in
current training resources by using a web-based, interactive multimedia approach
that incorporates adult learning theory and technique.
- Rhode Island Department of Health, "Inspections Methods to Reduce
Frequency of Risk Factors in Schools" -- addresses the underlying cause
for the existence of CDC identified risk factors in schools; barriers to their
removal; and develops a plan for reducing these factors by more than the 25
percent FDA target.
- State of Iowa Department of Inspections and Appeals, "Program Standards
Audit Team" -- designed to decrease the occurrence of foodborne illness
by increasing uniformity through the development of food program assessments.
- State of Iowa Department of Inspections and Appeals Services, "Integrated
Data Acquisition Project" -- designed to improve the link between collection
of field data, storage, and information access of current database to meet
the efficiency demands without compromising public safety.
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