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Many people do not think about food safety until a food-related illness affects them or a family member. While the food supply in the United States is one of the safest in the world, CDC estimates that 76 million people get sick, more than 300,000 are hospitalized, and 5,000 Americans die each year from foodborne illness. Preventing foodborne illness and death remains a major public health challenge.

ALERTS AND RECALLS

2009 FDA Food Code

The Food and Drug Administration has announced the publication of the new FDA Food Code, a model code and reference document that provides a scientifically sound technical and legal basis for regulating the retail and food service segment of the food industry.
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Nebraska Firm Recalls Fresh Ground Beef Products Due To Possible E. coli O157:H7 Contamination

USDA_November 17, 2009: Fairbury Steaks, Inc. is recalling approximately 90 pounds of fresh ground beef products that may be contaminated with E. coli O157:H7.
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Utah Firm Recalls Assorted Meat And Poultry Products Produced Without Inspection

USDA_November 17, 2009: Thrive Foods is recalling approximately 3,790 pounds of assorted meat and poultry products because they were produced without the benefit of federal inspection.
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FDA Pistachio Product Recall List

FDA Peanut Product Recall List

LATEST NEWS

Make Food Safety Part of Your Holiday Menu - Have a Safe, Successful Holiday Feast

USDA_November 17, 2009: The Thanksgiving feast traditionally marks the beginning of the holiday season. This season, consumers can be thankful for many things including a new Web site, www.holidayfoodsafety.org, that puts food safety in the context of all the planning and preparation families put into their holiday celebration. The site includes food shopping and preparation tips, recipes, and food safety advice and activities — all in one convenient location.
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FDA Opens Reportable Food Registry Electronic Portal

OH&S_September 9, 2009: The Food and Drug Administration has a new way to head off potential cases of foodborne illness--the Reportable Food Registry (RFR). This electronic portal is what food industry officials must use to alert FDA quickly when they find their products might sicken or kill people or animals. The requirement, a result of legislation, took effect with the launch of the portal.
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HACCP Basic Food Safety Course Educational Video - Part 2: Holding Time and Temperatures

The link below is a free 5 minute video that can be offered to kitchen staff as training. Please take a look at it to see if it could be used at your Center. If so, consider subscribing and getting follow-on videos as well.
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HACCP Basic Food Safety Course Educational Videos

The link below contains 6 video's that can be offered to kitchen staff as training. Please take a look at them to see if it could be used at your Center.
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The President's Food Safety Working Group

On March 14, 2009, President Barack Obama announced the creation of the Food Safety Working Group, chaired by the Secretaries of the Department of Health and Human Services and the Department of Agriculture. As the President said in his address, the working group "will bring together cabinet secretaries and senior officials to advise me on how we can upgrade our food safety laws for the 21st century; foster coordination throughout government; and ensure that we are not just designing laws that will keep the American people safe, but enforcing them."
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CDC Food Safety Office
The mission of the Food Safety Office is to lead CDC's food safety program to prevent illness, disability and death due to domestic and imported foodborne diseases.
Clean Hand Coalition
The Clean Hands Coalition is a unified alliance of public and private partners working together to create and support coordinated, sustained initiatives to significantly improve health and save lives through clean hands.
Federal Citizen Information Center
This website includes many educational materials free of charge on nutrition and food safety.
Foodsafety.gov
This website is a Gateway to government food safety information.
Food Safety and Sanitation Training
The University of Connecticut, Department of Nutritional Sciences was awarded a United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) grant in food safety to develop a food safety distance education course for food handlers. Through grant funding they were able to develop a distance education course for food handlers in English, Spanish, and Vietnamese.
Food Safety Risk Analysis Clearninghouse
The Clearing House mission, as described is to establish a clearinghouse that would collect and catalogue available data and methodology on food safety risk analysis offered by the private sector, trade associations, federal and state agencies, and international sources.
Food Safety First - Food Safety Training
An online education program designed to help you and your students gain food safety knowledge, safe food handling practices, and critical thinking skills.
International HACCP Alliance
The mission of the HACCP alliance is to promote international public health and food safety by facilitating uniform development and implementation of HACCP program from Farm to table.
NEHA Food Safety Education Resources
The National Environmental Health Training is a limited-liability corporation established as a partnership between the NEHA and Chadwick House Group Limited. NEHA Training's objective is to strengthen the foundation of food safety training in the United States by establishing a nationwide network of registered food safety trainers and by providing effective learning materials to trainers, managers, and employees in the food service industry.
Partnership for Food Safety Education
The Fight BAC! Campaign , developed in conjunction with the President's National Food Safety Initiative, is a far-reaching, ambitious and consumer-friendly public education campaign focused on safe food handling.
USDA's 2005 FDA Food Code
The Code is a reference document for regulatory agencies that oversee food safety in food service establishments, retail food stores, other food establishments at the retail level, and institutions, such as nursing homes and child care centers. This Code establishes definitions; sets standards for management and personnel, food operations, and equipment and facilities; and provides for food establishment plan review, permit issuance, inspection, employee restriction, and permit suspension.
USDA/FDA Center for Food Safety and Applied Nutrition
The CFSAC is a division of the FDA and provides information related to government food safety.
USDA/FDA Foodborne Illness Education
The USDA/FDA Foodborne Illness Education Information Center provides information about foodborne illness prevention to educators, trainers, and organizations developing education and training materials for food workers and consumers.
USDA Food Safety Inspection Service
FSIS is the public health agency in the USDA responsible for ensuring the nation's commercial supply of meat, poultry, and egg products is safe, wholesome, and correctly labeled and packaged.
USDA's Managing Food Safety Manual
USDA's Managing Food Safety: A Manual for the Voluntary Use of HACCP Principles for Operators of Food Service and Retail Establishments provides you with a "roadmap" for writing and voluntarily implementing a food safety management system based on Hazard Analysis and Critical Control Point (HACCP) principles. If you already have an existing food safety management system, you may use the concepts in this Manual to upgrade the system you have in place.
USDA Meat and Poultry Product Recalls
A recall is a voluntary action taken by a manufacturer or distributor to protect the public from products that may cause health problems. Look here first for the current news.
World Health Organization
The World Health Organization (WHO) Food Safety site provides scientific advice for Member States, other organizations and the public related to the safety of food. Recognizing the global nature of many food safety problems, linking national food safety systems and building the capacity of such systems is also an important task for WHO.