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Category Archives: Food Safety

Dr. Mike Payne explaining FMD response procedures

FMD Dairy Field Day

Disaster Preparedness, Featured, Food Safety, Homeland Security, News and Events, Public Health, UncategorizedBy wp-user110/14/2016

A FMD Dairy Field Day held in Tulare, CA, helped raise awareness of actions that producers and processors can take before and during a Foot and Mouth Disease outbreak.

Farm-to-Fork Festival

Food Safety, News and Events, UncategorizedBy wp-user110/14/2016

The fourth annual Farm-to-Fork Festival held on Capitol Mall in Sacramento on September 24 included the popular School of Veterinary Medicine – WIFSS booth which features family-friendly games focused on testing festival goer’s food safety knowledge.

Breaking the chain of foodborne illnesses through education

Featured, Food Safety, International Outreach, News and Events, One Health, Past Conferences Jiangsu, Public Health, Research, Uncategorized, Water QualityBy wp-user109/13/2016

WIFSS is improving food safety from soil to table through its One Health for Food Safety conferences by the threefold mission of raising awareness, encouraging team building, and bringing about change through calls to action.

New series of “Do you know” videos on the way

Food Safety, News and Events, UncategorizedBy wp-user108/18/2016

A video shoot in Central California produces new batch of DeLaval “Do You Know” video series. The current series of videos will aid viewers in identifying milk fever and calf scours, and understanding the proper maintenance of dairy equipment.

Researchers educating growers about proper water sampling

Food Safety, FSMA, Uncategorized, Water QualityBy wp-user108/03/2016

UC Davis researchers lead water quality workshops helping train growers about proper methods for obtaining accurate water samples in order to be in compliance with the new food safety regulations in the Produce Safety Rules for the Food Safety Modernization Act (FSMA).

Agriculture Water Quality Important Component in Food Safety

Food Safety, FSMA, Water QualityBy wp-user105/11/2016

The FDA Food Safety Modernization Act (FSMA) Produce Safety Rule is now final and it marks a change in the way we regulate food safety. What does this mean for growers as they learn to comply to the new standards?

WIFSS Training Rural Area First Responders

Disaster Preparedness, Food Safety, Homeland SecurityBy wp-user105/03/2016

New Mexico State University’s Southwest Border Protection and Emergency Preparedness Center hosted a full day of intensive training outlining the potential effects of possible types of agroterrorism, and the impact of an incident on the entire food system or on a specific segment of the food system.

Building FSMA Training Curriculum

Disaster Preparedness, Food Safety, FSMA, Public Health, UncategorizedBy wp-user104/08/2016

WIFSS team members take part in the ongoing effort in the development of curriculum that will train food protection professionals to meet the requirements of the Food Safety Modernization Act (FSMA).

Rural Training Courses Help Protect Our Food Supply

Disaster Preparedness, Food Safety, Public Health, UncategorizedBy wp-user103/03/2016

More than 25 first responders were present for the one-day combined AWR 151 and 154 crash course in Fellsmere, FL, conducting tabletop exercises to protect our food supply.

Team Work Helps Solve Food Safety Problems

Food Safety, International Outreach, One Health, Past Conferences NAU, UncategorizedBy wp-user102/23/2016

Excessive pesticide residues in the environment entering the human food chain are a potential health risk. This was one of the food safety problems which students chose to address during the 3-week NAU-UC Davis Graduate Education Conference on One Health.

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