Food Safety Education

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Program Description

Through Food Safety Education, the University of Minnesota Extension Service brings research-based
solutions to emerging food safety issues in the food industry broadly, health care and home. This contributes to safer meals away from home, reduces citations and critical violations during health inspections, and reduces the risk of economic consequences of foodborne illness outbreaks in restaurants, hospitals, jails, schools and citizens’ homes. We provide current information on new hazards, regulations, issues and processing methods.

Audience

• Food service managers
• Commercial food handlers, workers
• Non-profit, community, volunteer food handlers
• Care givers and high risk populations- seniors
• Consumers and entrepreneurs
• Hunters and Fishers/ Consumers
• Commercial food processors
• MN Dept. of Ag. Food Inspectors and food indusrty representatives

Specific Goals

• To provide thorough, timely, relevant, research-based food safety educational opportunities statewide related to food preparation, foodservice, preservation, and processing for Minnesotans.
• By follow-up evaluations, to demonstrate increased use of safe techniques with a reduction in food safety hazards by all citizens served.

Team Members

• Roselyn Biermaier, ServSafe® (Online) Program Contact [info]
• Deb Botzek-Linn, Food Safety Content Specialist [info]
• Kathy Brandt, ServSafe® (Face to Face) Program Contact [info]
• Carol Ann Burtness, Employee Training and Food Preservation Program Contact [info]
• Suzanne Driessen, Inspector and Food Industry Training Program Contact [info]
• Joellen Feirtag, HACCP for Food Processors Program Contact [info]
• Lou Ann Jopp, Serve it Up Safely™ (Face to Face), Cooking for a Crowd, and Wildlife Sports Food Safety Program Contact [info]
• Stephen Kells, Integrated Pest Management Content Specialist [info]
• Glenyce Peterson-Vangsness, Safe Food Handling for Care Givers and High Risk Populations Program Contact [info]
• Elena Yepiz, Contact [info]

Partners

• Educational Foundation of the National Restaurant Association
  Minnesota Department of Health
  USDA
  US Food and Drug Administration
• Minnesota Department of Agriculture
  MN Department of Natural Resources
  Minnesota Department of Health
  Deer Hunter’s Association
  Wild Turkey Federation
  Minnesota Elk Breeders

What we do...

• UM Food Safety Web Site: www.extension.umn.edu/foodsafety
• ServSafe® Courses offered statewide
• Serve It Up Safely™ courses offered statewide
• On-line Serve It Up Safely™ Certification Renewal Course
• Serve It Up Safely™ curriculum
• Employee Training courses offered statewide
• Cooking for a Crowd courses offered statewide
• Mini-poster Series (variety of food safety topics)
• It's No Game Workshops
• Small Game Workshops
• Fish Food Safety Programs

At a glance:

UM Food Safety Website

Printable Info Sheet

Calendar of Related Events