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SAFEFOOD NEWS - Fall 1996 - Vol 1, No. 1

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RESOURCES

Food Safety on the Web

If you missed the video-conference, "Food Safety on the Web," a video tape of the 1 1/2 hour teleconference is available for loan to CSU employees from CSU's Audio Visual Services--(970) 491-5466. Ask for tape #6109.

This videoconference, which took place on September 20, 1996, focused on three recently compiled USDA databases: The Extension Food Safety Education Database, The National Food Safety Database, and The Foodborne Illness Educational Materials Database. These databases, developed by public and private groups, are comprehensive and continually updated.

The program showed types of resources catalogued in the databases and how to use these in educational settings. It also highlighted several successful food safety education programs referenced in the databases, including Colorado State University's S.A.F.E. program.

Hotline

The Alltrista Corporation has a toll-free consumer line for answering food preservation questions or recipe requests--1-800-240-3340. It operates between 6:30 and 2:30 mountain time, year-round. Consumers may also request a "Home Canning Catalog" of products including citric acid, pectin, pickling lime, candy thermometers, jars, lids, and spice mixes.

Safe Food for the Hungry '96

A videotape of this 2 1/2 hour satellite broadcast held at Purdue University on October 8, 1996, is available for loan through CSU Audiovisual Services--(970) 491-5466. Ask for tape #6106. The conference targeted food bank, food pantry, soup kitchen, and other non-profit food distribution organization directors, staff, and volunteers, as well as Extension educators and county, state, and local health officials who work with non- profit food distribution organizations or low-income individuals.

A Legal Assessment of FDA's New HACCP Regulations

A videotape of this satellite broadcast held on September 11, 1996, is available for loan through Colorado State University Audio Visual Services- (970) 491-5466. Ask for tape #6074. The teleconference included an overview of the FDA's new HACCP regulations; suggestions for handling FDA inspections of seafood facilities; and a review of legal rights concerning FDA enforcement options.

Nutrition & Food Safety Videos for Parents & Child Care Providers

Three videotapes and short study guides have been developed by CSU Extension to help parents and child care providers plan and serve healthy meals to preschool children. The videos range in length from 14 to 18 minutes and use scenes of children and caregivers in daycare homes and facilities in Colorado to demonstrate how to plan and serve healthy and safe foods.

Developing Children's Eating Habits describes how caregivers influence preschool children's food habits. Planning Healthy Meals for Children shows child care providers planning, preparing, and serving healthy meals to children. Using the Dietary Guidelines as their base, the child care providers demonstrate how they prepare a variety of foods in different ways so that meals and snacks are of interest to the children. Serving Children Safe Foods covers basic rules for safe handling of food, including shopping, storing, preparing, and serving food at home or on picnics.

The videos and short-study guides would be excellent for use in training programs for child care providers and parents as well as in child care courses in junior and senior high schools and vocational education programs.

All three videos can be ordered from the Department of Food Science and Human Nutrition, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO 80523- 1571 (attn: Linda Quaratino). Each individual video with accompanying study guide is $25.00. The complete series of three videos on one tape and three study guides is $55.00. Ph: (970) 491-7334; Fax: (970) 491-7252. Copies also are available on loan through CSU Audiovisual Services--(970) 491- 5466.

Excerpted from a review in Nutrition Today, May/June 1996.

Updated Monday, August 29, 2011