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SAFEFOOD NEWS - Fall 1999 - Vol 4 / No. 1

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Food Safety Program Available to Educators

The Partnership for the Food Safety Education announces Your Game Plan for Food Safety—an all-new, school-based program to educate 4th-6th graders and their families about safety. This program is available for FREE to teachers, Extension agents, and educators of students in this age group.

The classroom kit features a videotape, colorful classroom components, fun family take-homes and lots of inquiry-based activities and experiments. With this program, your students will be eager to Fight Bac for Food Safety! You can order this program at the Fight BAC! TM web site at: http://www.fightbac.org/EduResource/4to6.html

Y2K Information/Tipsheets

The following tipsheets can be useful with groups and individuals preparing for emergency situations:

These tipsheets are available at: http://www.ext.colostate.eduSITE/techmenu.htm

Additional Emergency Preparedness Resources

The Food and Nutrition Information Center has compiled a 9-page publication, "Resources for Food Safety and Storage in Emergency Situations."

This publication contains resources and information for the general public and individuals who are educating the public about responses to emergency and storage, before, during and after natural disasters. A section of Internet Resources is provided. The last section of this publication includes resources for Y2K.

You can view the publication on the web at http://www.nal.usda.gov/fnic/emerg.html. To order a hard copy, please send an email to fnic@nal.usda.gov and request the above title. You may also contact our office for a copy.

FDA Outreach and Information Center Opens

The Food and Drug Administration recently announced the opening of their Outreach and Information Center (O&IC), operated by FDA's Center for Food Safety and Applied Nutrition (CFSAN).

The O&IC was created in part to enhance FDA's ability to provide accurate and meaningful information to the public about food safety. In addition to providing food safety information, the O&IC will provide assistance with other CFSAN issues including cosmetics, food additives and dietary supplements.

The O&IC will operate CFSAN's new expanded toll-free public information line 1-888-SAFEFOOD. Information specialists will take calls from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. ET on business days.

The new information line replaces the old food line (1-800-FDA-4010) and the old cosmetic line (1-800-270-8869). Calls made to the old lines will automatically be transferred to the new information line.

Food Safety and Supermarkets

Need some tips on how to collaborate with your local grocer on delivering food safety messages? The Fight BAC! Supermarket Kit may be just what you need. This kit includes ideas for creating a consumer education program, sample press release, reproducible artwork, consumer brochures, consumer fact sheets, sample radio public service announcements, and more.

You can access this kit on the Fight BAC! Web site at: http://www.fightbac.org/word/supermarket.htm or you can order a hard copy for $10 by calling Fight Bac at (301)-731-6100, 8 a.m. –5 p.m. ET.

Consumer Meat and Poultry Hotline

As we approach the holiday turkey season, a good number to keep close at hand is FSIS's Meat and Poultry Hotline: 1-800-535-4555.

Food Safety Calendar for the New Millennium

Order your copy of the Fight BAC! 2000 Calendar. This bright and colorful calendar is filled with messages celebrating monthly food safety themes. Make 2000 the "Year of Food Safety." Calendars will be shipped on or about November 30. Get order information at— http://www.fightbac.org.

Regulator's Food Safety Information Line

USDA's Food Safety and Inspection Service has launched a new Regulator's Food Safety Information Line designed for state food and public health agencies. The information line staff will answer technical or regulatory questions on raising animals for food, slaughtering animals, processing products from those animals, and handling those products during transportation, storage, retail, and food service operations.

The number for the Regulator's Food Safety Information Line is 1-800-233-3935. It will handle questions by telephone, fax, mail, and e-mail: food.safety@usda.gov. The information line will be staffed from 6 a.m.-6 p.m., CT, Monday-Friday.

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Updated Monday, August 29, 2011