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WhAT’S hAPPENING IN FOOD SAFETY Mary Adolf, former president and chief operating officer, National Restaurant Association Education Foundation. John Farquharson, founder and president of the International Food Safety Council, executive emeritus for ARAMARK Corporation, 2004 FSLA Lifetime Achievement Award Winner. Ernest Julian, Ph.D., chief of the Office of Food Protection for the Rhode Island Department of Health, past chair of the Council of Public Health Consultants for NSF International. Ellen Laymon, staff supervisor for the Oregon Department of Agriculture Food Safety Division and member of the AFDO board. Ms. Layman has also served on the Western Association of Food and Drug Officials Board of Directors as liaison to the AFDO Board of Directors. Vickie Lewandowski, President Elect, International Association for Food Protection (IAFP), associate principal microbiologist for Kraft Foods Global Inc. Jim Mann, founder of the Handwashing Leadership Forum® and creator of Handwashing for Life,® winner of the 2005 FSLA Lifetime Achievement Award for Service. Donald Schaffner, Ph.D., extension specialist in Food Science and professor at Rutgers University, Member of the International Association for Food Protection (IAFP), the Institute of Food Technologists, the Society for Risk Analysis and the American Society for Microbiology. David M. Theno, Ph.D., CEO of Gray Dog Partners, Inc. Foods Consulting Business, former senior vice president of quality and logistics for Jack-in-the-Box and member of the US Department of Agriculture (USDA) National Advisory Committee on microbiological criteria for foods. Jack-in-the-Box was awarded the 2005 FSLA Award for Systems Improvement. Ewen C.D. Todd, Ph.D., director of the Food Safety Policy Center at Michigan State University, professor at MSU’s National Food Safety Toxicology Center, former director of the National Food Safety and Toxicology Center, chair of the Committee on Control of Foodborne Illness of the International Association for Food Protection (IAFP). Frank Yiannas, MPH, vice president of food safety, Wal-Mart Stores, Inc.; former director of Safety Health, Walt Disney World Co.; former president, International Association for Food Protection (IAFP), recipient of the 2007 FSLA Lifetime Achievement Award. For additional information about the awards program, please visit http://www.nsf.org/business/ newsroom/fs_awards.asp. equipment. The 3-A Symbol is a respected and reliable means to help assure everyone concerned that the equipment conforms to the appropriate 3-A Sanitary Standards,” he said. The value of the 3-A Symbol in the marketplace was enhanced by the Third Party Verification (TPV) inspection requirement instituted in 2003 as a requirement for 3-A Symbol authorization. The TPV requirement moved 3-A Symbol authorization away from an era of self-certification. Between 2003 and the end of 2007, approximately 520 TPV inspections were completed for equipment fabricated in the US and 22 other countries around the world, according to 3-A SSI. The inspections must be renewed every five years to maintain a 3-A Symbol authorization, whenever equipment nonconformance is found, or if there is a significant change in materials or manufacturing processes. Since 1956, the 3-A Symbol has been used to identify equipment that meets 3-A Sanitary Standards for design and fabrication. Voluntary use of the 3-A Symbol on dairy and food equipment assures processors that equipment meets sanitary standards, provides accepted criteria to equipment manufacturers for sanitary design, and establishes guidelines for uniform evaluation and compliance by sanitarians. 3-A SSI maintains the list of current 3-A Symbol licensees and a separate list of discontinued 3-A Symbol holders. The lists of current and discontinued 3-A Symbol holders are available on the 3-A SSI Web site at http://www.3-a. org/symbol/holders_list.html. The discontinued symbol holders list shows the reason for discontinuation, such as the equipment is no longer in production, the equipment was consolidated in another 3-A Symbol authorization resulting from 3-A SSI Announces New Public List of 3-A Symbol Holders -A Sanitary Standards, Inc. (3-A SSI) announces new public information on current 3-A Symbol holders to assist regulatory sanitarians, processors, equipment fabricators, and other interested parties. The list of current 3-A Symbol licensees, now available on the 3-A SSI web site, is important public information because it shows all equipment that conforms to 3-A Sanitary Standards for dairy and food processing equipment and meets provisions of the 3-A Symbol program. “This information is more valuable today than ever for inspection authorities, equipment fabricators and users,” according to 3-A SSI Executive Director Tim Rugh. “Concern about food safety extends to every part of the chain, including the sanitary design of processing 3 MARCH 2009 | FOOD PROTECTION TRENDS 167

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