Course Announcement

Food Safety Issues in the Event of Disasters: A Practical Application

July 30-31, 2013

Location of Training:

Hotel Andaluz

125 Second Street Northwest
Albuquerque, NM 87102

Course Overview:

This course incorporates interactive and performance based activities to address food safety issues faced in the event of a disaster. Food safety response and recovery issues that will be covered include situational assessments, inspectional concerns, salvage and other mitigation strategies related to food retail and processing facilities impacted by a natural or man-made disaster. This course is offered by the University of Tennessee’s Center for Agriculture and Food Security and Preparedness. The course will begin at 8:00 am July 30 and end at 12:00 pm July 31, 2013.

*IMPORTANT INFORMATION FOR ALL PARTICIPANTS: In order to participate inthis coures, all participants must register online and complete the pre-requisite web course “Food Safety Issues in the Event of Disasters: An Introduction”. This web course provides a necessary foundation for the Instructor Led course and will enable all participants to benefit equally from the delivery. “Food Safety Issues in the Event of Disasters: A Practical Application” is a performance level course and includes multiple hands on and interactive activities. The introductory material covered in the pre-requisite web course will not be covered in the Instructor led course delivery. A link to the online registration will ask the participants to create a username and password for our Learning Management System where the web course is located. Once completed, the system will email the participant with information about how to access the web course, which should take you no more than 4 hours to complete.

There are 35 available seats for the instructor led training. In order to secure a seat for this course, individuals must register by filling out the online form below:

Order of Modules Day 1:

Module 1Course Overview and Administration

Module 2Identifying Food Safety Issues Associated with Disasters

Module 3Food Safety Issues in the Event of Disasters-Planning and Preparedness

Module 4Food Safety Issues in the Event of Disasters- Assessment and Response

Module 5Food Safety Issues in the Event of Disasters-Recovery

Order of the Modules Day 2:

Module 6Practical Exercise

Module 7Course Summary and Administration

Funding for this course was made possible by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration through grant #1U54FD004331 in support of the Integrated Food Safety System(IFSS) and the Food Safety Modernization Act (FSMA).