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PDG HIGHLIGHT Food Safety Education PDG Within IAFp’s mission of providing food safety professionals worldwide with a forum to exchange information on protecting the food supply lies the foundation for the Food Safety Education professional development Group. This pdG’s focus and activities are based on sharing the most current science on food safety issues and management strategies with an aim on increased knowledge and ultimately impacting the behavior of target populations. The mandate of the pdG is to provide IAFp Members and their clientele information on food safety education. Education is defined here in the very broadest sense: From traditional classroom instruction on food safety, to compelling front line staff to employ good handwashing practices through to providing consumer-focused messages to impact in-the-home handling activities. This pdG has participated in creating best practices documents including food safety at temporary events and handling food safety during a disaster. More recently, the group has held discussions on using distance education technology and social media to connect food safety with a broader audience. Each year at the IAFp Annual Meeting, the Food Safety Education pdG discusses current food trends, consumer perceptions, public information campaigns and the development of materials and resources to support broad-scale education. In addition to annual symposia and roundtable activities, 2012–13 saw the pdG introduce a webinar series where pdG members created a dialogue amongst members about best practices related to educating a workforce. dr. Carol Wallace of the University of Central Lancashire (UK) and Lone Jespersen of Maple Leaf Foods (Canada) provided an international look at strategies for training and measuring the impacts of education efforts. dr. Wallace presented a session entitled Best Practices in Training for Effective Food Safety Management in the Processing Sector and Ms. Jespersen presented Effective Behavior-change Strategies: Where Do We Need to Go, What Should be Measured? Each of these seminars provided a forum for our members to communicate with each other about specific education topics and were deemed to be successful based on the number of attendees and the discussion that was generated. 2013-14 will see another webinar series with specific topics to be determined at the annual meeting. 266 FOOD PROTECTION TRENDS JULY–AUGUST 2013

Table of Contents for the Digital Edition of Food Protection Trends - July/August 2013

Food Protection Trends - July/August 2013
Contents
Commentary
The Development and Use of the Food and Agriculture Systems Criticality Assessment Tool (FASCAT)
Evaluation of Process Control to Prevent Contamination of Beef With Non-O157 Shiga Toxin-Producing Escherichia Coli (STEC) in U.S. Export Abattoirs in Honduras and Nicaragua
Food Safety Performance: Labeling and Indications of Allergens
Expectations and Applications of Natural Antimicrobials to Foods a Guidance Document for Users, Suppliers, Research and Development, and Regulatory Agencies
FSMA: Article 4
Research Spotlight
Beyond the Bio
Industry Products
PDG Highlight
Coming Events

Food Protection Trends - July/August 2013