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# Food Safety

Food safety practices are vital to maintaining food quality and preventing illness. This is especially true for senior nutrition programs, as older adults are at increased risk of foodborne illness. Your program must ensure the highest standard of food safety for your participants by identifying and implementing recommended food safety practices.

## Guides

                    - Food Safety Emergency Response Pocket Guide — The pocket guide addresses power outages, water outages, water contamination, sewage issues, floods, and fires                       - Spanish Food Safety Emergency Response Pocket Guide 
                    - Hazard Analysis and Critical Control Point Principles & Application Guidelines — Effective means of assuring food safety from harvest to consumption from the FDA
                    - Food Safety for Older Adults and People With Cancer, Diabetes, HIV/AIDS,  Organ Transplants, and Autoimmune Diseases — FDA recommendations for older  adults and those with compromised immune systems
                    - Food Service Basics for Non-Food Service Program Managers and Staff  — Service, storage, procurement, production, and food safety                       - Summary Brief 
                    - Kitchen Food Safety Basics — Partnership for Food Safety Education practices to reduce your risk of  foodborne illness

## Tools & Toolkits

                    - Food Safety During Power Outage — FoodSafety.gov refrigerated food safety chart
                    - Food Safety on the Go — Food safety training program developed by UMD for staff, volunteers,  and clients of home-delivered meal programs                        - Course Publication  — The development of the training program
                      - FAQs
                      - Food Safety on the Go  — Takeaways and food safety across the supply chain 
                    - Food Safety — Information from The Partnership for Food Safety Education                       - Flour and Home Food Safety
                      - Food Poisoning
                      - Recall Basics
                      - Safe Poultry
                      - Safe Produce 
                    - 2022 FDA Food Code — Downloadable full document of the 2022 Food Code
                    - FDA Food Code — Current and previous Food Codes
                    - Food Recalls and Alerts — From the Food Safety and Inspection Service
                    - Retail and Food Service Codes and Regulations by State — Link to food safety departments and policies for each state
                    - Supplement Screening — Tool from USU to help determine if your supplements are safe

##  Presentations

                    - Food Safety in Older Adults  — Disease prevention strategies and educational resources
                    - From The Kitchen to the Table  — Food safety for home-delivered meal drivers

## Resources

                    - Assembling Food Safety Emergency Supply Kits Poster — Poster that highlights key supplies to include in emergency kits that impact food service operations                       - Spanish Assembling Food Safety Emergency Supply Kits Poster 
                    - Employee Health and Personal Hygiene Handbook — A training and practice resource that can help prevent food service employees from spreading viruses and bacteria to food
                    - Food Protection Educational Materials — Employee training materials that underscore the importance of good food safety practices
                    - Are You Storing Food Safely? — FDA tips and tricks to safe food storage
                    - How to Report a Foodborne Illness — CDC information on reporting suspected cases of foodborne illness
                    - Keeping Hands Clean — CDC tips and information on handwashing to protect yourself and others from getting sick

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*Last modified on 02/02/2024*

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