This was a presentation done at the AFDO Annual meeting in 2011. It highlighted the Retail Foodservice Food Safety Consortium's work.

1. Sharing Resources for
Retail Food Safety
Education & Training
Brian A. Nummer, Ph.D. 2011

3. Retail Food Safety Consortium
Communication
Research
Education

4. Roundtable 2006 Recommendations
 Define the boundaries that exist among retail food safety professionals and identify
areas that could benefit through collaborations
 Meet each year to foster partnerships and communication
 Develop a formal mechanism to identify research and communicate priorities to
stakeholders
 Identify and communicate best “proven” practices to offer to operators
 Assess data needed by regulators and industry to promote the cost-benefit of food
safety activities
 Promote behavior change as the foundation of all research, outreach, and training
efforts
 Collect and review retail food safety resources to maximize use and to avoid
duplication
 Create a portal website to improve communications
 Improve collaboration between sanitarians and non-regulatory food safety
professionals
 Share non-English language materials nation-wide.

5. 1. Enhance collaborations between
retail food safety professionals and
their associations
2. Identify and scientifically validate
retail food safety “best” practices
3. Collect, develop, review, and
disseminate retail food safety
resources
4. Identify and prioritize retail food
safety needs

6. Enhance Collaborations
• Consortium Roundtables at Association
Annual Meetings
2008
Tucson AZ
2009
Chicago
2010
Anaheim, CA

7. Outputs – NEHA Annual
Meeting 2008 Tucson, AZ
• (p 16) Assessing Food
Safety Training Needs of
Environmental Health
Specialists in the U.S.:
Focus Group Summary
• (p 18) Surveying the
Food Safety Training
Needs of Environmental
Health Specialists in the
U.S.
Volume 72 No. 8 April 2010

8. Enhance Collaborations
2009 AFDO Annual
Meeting Roundtable
Food safety professionals face increasing challenges due to shrinking budgets, international
trade, new technologies, emerging pathogens, and changing consumer demands. AFDO has
joined together with NEHA, IAFP along with Arkansas, Clemson, Purdue, Rutgers and Utah State
Universities to form the Retail Food Safety Consortium (RFSC).
Angela M. Fraser, Ph.D., Associate Professor/Food Safety Specialist, Dept of Food Sci & Human Nutrition
Brian A. Nummer, Ph.D., Extension Food Safety Specialist and Director, Retail Food Safety Consortium, Utah State University
John Marcy, Ph.D., Professor and Poultry Processing Specialist, Center of Excellence for Poultry Science, University of Arkansas
Fred Reimers, Food Safety Consultant, Creative FoodSafe Solutions (IAFP Retail Representative)
Dr. Richard H. Linton, Professor of Food Safety and Director of the Center for Food Safety Engineering, Purdue University
Charlene W. Bruce, Director, Food Protection Division, Mississippi Department of Health
Ron Klein, Present-Elect, AFDO and Program Manager, Alaska Department of Environmental Conservation

9. 2010 IAFP Annual Meeting Research
Needs in Retail Food Safety Roundtable
Aug 2, 2010 Monday Morning
Larry Kohl, Jennifer Quinlan, Kevin Smith, Ann Marie Mc
Namara, Don Schaffner, and Brian Nummer

10. 1. Enhance collaborations between
retail food safety professionals and
their associations
2. Identify and scientifically
validate retail food safety “best”
practices
3. Collect, develop, review, and
disseminate retail food safety
resources
4. Identify and prioritize retail food
safety needs

11. Best Practices Research
◦ Thawing at 135ºF (as part of cooking process)
◦ J. Food Control 20:706-708
◦ Wet cooking gourmet (thick) hamburgers
◦ J. Food Science (Accepted – in print)
◦ Ethnic food processes (tacos al Pastor)
◦ Reduced Oxygen Packaging
◦ Conf. Food Protection Committee 2010-12
◦ USU ROP Online Course in development
◦ Various Salmonella challenge studies

12. Best Practices Research

13. 1. Enhance collaborations between
retail food safety professionals and
their associations
2. Identify and scientifically validate
retail food safety “best” practices
3. Collect, develop, review, and
disseminate retail food safety
resources
4. Identify and prioritize retail food
safety needs

15. Editable Resources

17. EDITABLE Documents

18. Resources
Collect &
Develop
• Factsheets
• Guides
• “How to’s”
• Best practices
• Training
• HACCP templates
Review
Consortium and NEHA, IAFP, AFDO
volunteers (you)
Consortium & partner websites
Disseminate
● Copyright-free
● Customizable & editable
● Language translations

19. Most downloaded resources
• Spanish – Puerto Rico
Translation (Puerto Rico
Dept Health) ~ 500
downloads
• Spanish – Mexican
dialect translation
(Maricopa County DH) ~
400 downloads

21. PHOTOS
Contribut
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collectio
n

22. Buy-in (motivators)
Sometimes photos have impact
anyone know what these are?

23. Sometimes photos have impact
Spinach + E. coli -- Guess his
prognosis?

25. 1. Enhance collaborations between
retail food safety professionals and
their associations
2. Identify and scientifically validate
retail food safety “best” practices
3. Collect, develop, review, and
disseminate retail food safety
resources
4. Identify and prioritize retail food
safety needs

26. 2010 IAFP Annual Meeting Research
Needs in Retail Food Safety Roundtable
Aug 2, 2010 Monday Morning
Larry Kohl, Jennifer Quinlan, Kevin Smith, Ann Marie Mc
Namara, Don Schaffner, and Brian Nummer

27. Brian A. Nummer,
Ph.D.
Angela Fraser,
Ph.D.
Donald Schaffner,
Ph.D.
Richard Linton,
Ph.D.
John Marcy, Ph.D.
Association participants:
AFDO, NEHA, IAFP
Government participants: FDA (CFSAN), CDC
Industry participants: Johnson Diversey, Kroger, Tyson Foods, Ecolab, +more
Local and state Health Departments were represented via AFDO and NEHA