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Education and ConferencesThe sites included in this section cover ma y aspects of food safety and security education. Meetings and conferences are excellent sources of information for health professionals and scientists interested in these fields. Generally, these events are geared toward industry experts rather than laypersons, but research and policy decisions presented and discussed in these settings have implications for food safety and security. The symbol is used to denote major sites related to this category. Canadian Partnership for Consumer Food Safety Education <https://www.canfightbac.org/english/indexe.shtml>;
The Canadian Partnership for Consumer Food Safety Education is “a national association of public and private organizations committed to educating Canadians about the ease and importance of food safety in the home.” Site information includes safe handling tips, FightBAC images and logos, an interactive game, free teaching materials that can be requested by e-mail or telephone, fact sheets, and public service announcements. Site content is also presented in the French language. FNIC Resource Lists <https://www.nal.usda.gov/fnic/pubs_and_db.html>;
Food and Nutrition Information Center (FNIC) is part of the USDA and the Agriculture Research Service (ARS), in partnership with the University of Maryland and Howard University. The FNIC site includes a list of annotated database links. The databases related to food safety include AGRIS/CARIS/FAO Online, produced by the Food and Agricultural Organization (FAO) of the United Nations; Agriculture Network Information Center (AgNIC) Agriculture Data-
base; FNIC databases; Information on Dietary Supplements AGRICultural OnLine Access (AGRICOLA); Dietary Exposure Potential Model; Medline Plus; U.S. Department of Agriculture Bibliography Databases; Food Preservation Database, produced by Pennsylvania State University; and other resources (see Figure 8.1). Food Safety Education <https://www.fsis.usda.gov/education.index.asp>;
The Food Safety Inspection Service (FSIS) is “the public health agency in the U.S. Department of Agriculture responsible for ensuring that the nation’s commercial supply of meat, poultry, and egg products is safe, wholesome, and correctly labeled and packaged.” The FSIS site organizes food safety education and consumer information, including The Food Safety Educator, a newsletter that is available free on this site and “distributed to nearly 10,000 educators throughout the country including public health offices, extension educators, industry, and consumer groups.” Food Safety Education <https://www.foodsafety.gov/~dms/fsebac.html>;
FoodSafety.gov is the U.S. government’s gateway to information about food safety. Site features include information about the four basic food safety steps (clean, separate, cook, and chill); what’s new in government food safety; and food safety brochures and information sheets in the English, Chinese, and Spanish languages. Food Safety Summit <https://www.foodsafetysummit.com/>;
Food Safety Summit is a yearly conference that focuses on food safety and quality assurance for food manufacturers, processors, restaurant chains, and supermarkets. Typical topics of concern include bioterrorism, bovine spongiform encephalopathy, listeria, federal regulations, and more. International Conference on Emerging Infectious Diseases
(ICEID) <https://www.iceid.org/default.asp>;
Sponsored by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), American Society for Microbiology (ASM), the World Health
Organization (WHO), and ICEID was held in 1998. Typical meetings convene
public health professionals to encourage the exchange of scientific and public health information on global emerging infectious disease issues. . . . Major topics include current work on surveillance, epidemiology, research, communication and training, bioterrorism, and preventions and control of emerging infectious diseases, both in the United States and abroad.
