CollaborativeHave you been keeping up with the Collaborative? Over the last year, the Retail Food Safety Regulatory Association Collaborative (Collaborative) has brought you:
The Retail Program Standards Symposium Presented by the NEHA-FDA RFFM in collaboration with the Conference for Food Protection was established to provide support and education for retail food safety jurisdictions at state, local, tribal, and territorial (SLTT) levels, whether just beginning with the Voluntary National Retail Food Regulatory Program Standards (VNRFRPS) or maintaining conformance.
Mark your calendars for the 2022 Retail Program Standards Symposium, Tuesday June 7 - Thursday June 9, 2022.
AbstractFermented foods have become a part of our cultural heritage and chefs and retailers seek to offer these tasty foods to their customers. Fermenting foods at the retail food service level, however, is considered a special process under the Food and Drug Administration model Food Code and requires a food safety plan. This special report was developed to assist both operators and regulators in preparing or reviewing a food safety plan for vegetable fermentation, including pickles, sauerkraut, kimchi, and fermented vegetable juices.
Who makes sure that our food, water, air, homes, and communities are safe? We know that it’s environmental health professionals, but to most people, our work goes unnoticed. Fortunately, Americans trust that their water is safe to drink, or that the restaurant they are eating from is clean, but they don’t consider how that happens.
New Training on Decreasing Transmission of Airborne Viruses in Restaurants Now AvailableSafety First: Helping Restaurants Reduce the Spread of Covid-19 is a new, free training that aims to support health departments and local restaurants to decrease the transmission of airborne viruses. The training:
