Progress 09/01/18 to 08/31/19
Outputs
Target Audience:The project is a partnership among states in the Pacific Northwest including Alaska, Idaho, Oregon, and Washington. The land-grant university extension systems of Oregon State University, University of Alaska, University of Idaho, and Washington State University are making efforts to provide customized food safety education, training, and technical assistance to very specific target audiences such as owners and operators of very small, small, and medium-sized farms, beginning farmers, socially disadvantaged farmers small processors, and small fresh fruit and vegetable merchant wholesalers. Most of our target audiences are exempt since their annual sales are less than $24,999, or eligible for a qualified exemption form the FSMA rules after meeting certain modified requirements. Unfortunately, these target audiences are very hard-to-reach groups, often in rural, remote areas. Regardless of size of farms and processing facilities, many farmers and processors are confused and lack information about the FSMA and the food safety rules and regulations that may apply to them. The proposed project is trying to deliver customized versions of the FSMA information targeting owners and operators of very small and small farms, food processors, small fruit and vegetable wholesalers, food hubs, farmers markets, terminal markets and farms who are not able to attend conventional food safety training and other educational opportunities, or who find the existing training to be irrelevant to their needs. In our vast geographic region, these audiences are underserved and are very hard to reach due to their remote and isolated location. Changes/Problems:
Nothing Reported
What opportunities for training and professional development has the project provided?
Nothing Reported
How have the results been disseminated to communities of interest?The data and results from Produce Safety Rule and Preventive Controls for Human Food Rule needs assessment data has been provided to Western Regional Food Safety Outreach Program PIs, researchers, and other extension professionals through Western Regional Center to Enhance Food Safety annual conference. What do you plan to do during the next reporting period to accomplish the goals?During the next reporting period, more customized training and education materials will be provided on the project food safety website (https://nwfoodsafety.wordpress.com/home/) and on-line interactive training modules will be created and provided. In addition, short demonstration videos for various food safety practice will be produced and provided on the website (Objective 2 of the project goal). Based on our target audience demands, additional power point presentation trainings such as soil amendment, agricultural water, cottage food regulations and HACCP will be developed and provided. Case study collected from peer farmers and processors will help our target audiences understand farm and manufacturing safety (Objective 3 of the project goal). We will keep maintaining our sub-regional food safety outreach network to provide better customized food safety information for our target audiences. Also, we will communicate and collaborate with Western Regional Food Safety Center to accomplish our project goals as planned (Objective 4 of the project goal).
Impacts
What was accomplished under these goals?
Objective 2: Develop customized training and education materials on an interactive web module using each university's extension website to provide FSMA-related information and critical updates, webinars for isolated and remote target audiences, DVDs, FSMA document forms, and an educational booklet. Currently, a food safety website for our target audiences is being developed (https://nwfoodsafety.wordpress.com/home/). The website is providing brief information on Food Safety Modernization Act (FSMA) and how to affect growers and processors through bulletin. Through this website, the training schedule will be provided in both produce safety and preventive controls for human food. The handout for training materials, handouts, documentation forms will be provided. However, the website was not developed on any of our Land-Grant university extension website since it would take more time to go through these university website development process due to many policies and protocols. In this website, web-based interactive modules for customized training and interaction with target audiences are provided. For example, the interactive modules help farmers and processors decide if they are exempt from FSMA Produce Safety Rule or Preventive Control for Human Food Rule based on decision flow charts for FSMA exemption. Through this website the audiences will evaluate themselves using self-evaluation tools after on-line learnings. Objective 3: Provide FSMA-related food safety information such as Food Safety Plan and Standard for Produce Safety (not FSMA-certified training) to target audiences through statewide workshops in each state. This would be training that is relevant to small producers and sellers and would not cover the extent of the FSPCA or PSA-approved curriculum, although materials from those courses would be used. 1) According to needs assessment surveys, majority of the participants (62.5% in PCHF and 62% in PSR) were willing to attend one or more days overview presentation/class on the FSMA requirements. For this reason, we produced Power Point Presentation trainings and materials for one-day with 2 half-day sessions, Produce Safety and Preventive Controls for Human Food. These include a) General Food Safety, b) Produce Production and Processing, c) Produce Safety Plan, d) Worker Hygiene and Sanitation, e) Food Safety Plan, and f) Good Manufacturing Practices. Development of FSMA related information or training materials has been being conducted. While these information and training materials have been developed, extension food safety programs in each land-grant university has provide basic food safety trainings and workshops through existing food safety outreach programs. To figure out what other food safety information our target audiences want to know, we conducted a few pilot trainings with current food safety training subjects and materials. And, we learned that our target audiences want more information on 1) soil amendment such as how to efficiently compost manure, 2) agricultural water such as production and post-harvest water, 3) cottage food regulation, and 4) HACCP. In addition to our customized food safety trainings, our PIs in each state have provided FSMA certified trainings such as Produce Safety Alliance (PSA) Produce Safety Grower training (9 in Idaho and 5 in Washington) and Food Safety Preventive Control Alliance (FSPCA) Preventive Controls for Human Food Preventive Control Qualified Individual (PCQI) training (2 in Idaho). Objective 4: Establish a sub-regional food safety education network in conjunction with Western Regional Food Safety Center (WRFSC) to provide customized food safety information for hard-to-reach target audiences. 1) Our project has a strong food safety outreach and education networking in the Pacific North West and Alaska conducted in accordance with the Western Regional Center to Enhance Food Safety (WRCEFS). As external advisory committee members, a PI in WRCEFS, Dr. Michael Morrissey and PNW sub-regional director, Dr. Barbara Rasco have continued to provide expertise to improve our multi-state project. Also, the PD of the project attended to report the annual progress of the project at the WRCEFS annual meeting in Davis, CA.We have communicated and worked together with local and stakeholders such as farmers markets and State Department of Agriculture to provide food safety trainings and information. Even though Objective 5 was completely accomplished in Year 1, the PDs of USDA NIFA Food Safety Outreach Program in the Western region keep communicating and networking together to exchange food safety information and curriculum.
Publications
- Type:
Websites
Status:
Published
Year Published:
2018
Citation:
Agenbroad, A., Kim, J.H., Smith, S., Matney, C., and Santamaria, L. 2018. Grow it, Make it, Sell it-Safely.
https://nwfoodsafety.wordpress.com/home/.
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Progress 09/01/16 to 08/31/19
Outputs
Target Audience:The target audiences of this project is very specific. They areowners and operators of very small, small and medium-sized farms, beginning farmers, socially disadvantaged farmers, small processors, and small fresh fruit and vegetable merchant wholesalers. Changes/Problems:As the project director, I was expecting to continue this project for one more year through no-cost extension before I was aware that this particular project is statutory, in which no-cost extesion is not allowed. As a result, the project was not able to provide on-site classroom type food safety trainings as planned. However, we have made our efforts to contact more target audiences and provide more food safety trainings and infromation through our on-line trainings through websites and a series of webinars. What opportunities for training and professional development has the project provided?The multistate training projectidentifiedqualified and experienced food safety and small farm extension specialists and experienced extension educators in each state and sponsor the educators to become FSPCA Preventive Controls for Human Food Lead Instructors and PSA Produce Safety Trainers/Lead Trainers in conjunction with programs offered through the WRCEFSand related FSMA training alliances such as FSPCA and PSA. Although most of the target audiences are not covered by or are exempt from some of the FSMA final rules, the proposed training project will not be as extensive as that offered in the FSMA certified FSPCA and PSA standard curricula. However, it is critical and essential for extension specialists and extension educators to be trained as FSPCA Preventive Controls for Human Food Lead Instructors and/or PSA Trainer/Lead Trainers in order to provide high quality, nationally consistent food safety education and training, albeit customized for the specific target audiences in our region. Throuout the project, we produced 7 FSPCA Preventive Control for Human Food Preventive Control Qualified Individual Courses trainers and 5 of them are Lead trainers. In addition, we trained 10 PCA Produce Safety Growers trainers and 3 of them are Lead trainers. How have the results been disseminated to communities of interest?The web-based training plaformwas developed and provided different food safety information through our website. One of these is a food safety webinar series. A series of food safety webinars were presented form April 2nd to July 9th, 2019. These webinars was announced from our websitehttps://pnwfoodsafety.wordpress.com/home/training-opportunities/and through Land Grant University Extension program websites.The onlinetraining wasvery effective to provide our target audiences since they are very hard to reach. Most of all, it was almost impossible to provide them food safety information through on-site face-to-face trainings since the time for them to attend is very limited and varied due to differenct farming seasons and target crops. At last, we found the on-line training is very efficient and not limited by time. In addition we can provide recorded trainingwebinars with a USB thumb drive. As long as we maintain our website with our food safety extension team, we can continue to provide new food safety webinars and recorded version of trainings. What do you plan to do during the next reporting period to accomplish the goals?
Nothing Reported
Impacts
What was accomplished under these goals?
Thisproposed multistate project addresses the preference criteria for successful Multistate Education and Training Projects. The project 1) wasled by a project team with extension food safety experts in Pacific Northwest Land Grant unversity extension programs, Oregon State Univwersity, Washington State University, University of Alaska, and University of Idaho and built strong sub-regional food safety network; 2) develops and implements customized food safety education programfor very small farmers andprocessors who are mostly exempted form FSMA rulesand, 3) found ways to contact and help our very specific target audiences understand food safety knowledge as well as FSMA rules.The proposed project conducted food safety education and outreach activities in collaboration with WRCEFS regional center.This project enhanced existing land-grant university extension food safety and small farm programs to provide more food safety training and education opportunities to very small and small-sized farms, beginning farmers, socially disadvantaged and isolated farmers, small processors, and small fresh fruit and vegetable merchant wholesalers. The multistate project haselevated the capacity of the region's target audiences to produce and sustain healthy and safe food.
Publications
- Type:
Other
Status:
Published
Year Published:
2019
Citation:
Mills, R., Agenbroad, A., DePhelps, C., Kim, J.H. 2019. Regional trainings prepare Idaho produce farmers for federal food safety regulations. Impact Statement. University of Idaho Extension. May 2019.
- Type:
Websites
Status:
Published
Year Published:
2018
Citation:
Agenbroad, A. Kim, J.H., Matney, C., Santamaria, L. 2018. GROW IT, MAKE IT, SELL IT SAFELY. https://pnwfoodsafety.wordpress.com/home/.
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Progress 09/01/17 to 08/31/18
Outputs
Target Audience:The project is a partnership among states in the Pacific Northwest including Alaska, Idaho, Oregon, and Washington. The land-grant university extension systems of Oregon State University, University of Alaska, University of Idaho, and Washington State University are making efforts to provide customized food safety education, training, and technical assistance to very specific target audiences such as owners and operators of very small, small, and medium-sized farms, beginning farmers, socially disadvantaged farmers small processors, and small fresh fruit and vegetable merchant wholesalers. Most of our target audiences are exempt since their annual sales are less than $24,999, or eligible for a qualified exemption form the FSMA rules after meeting certain modified requirements. Unfortunately, these target audiences are very hard-to-reach groups, often in rural, remote areas. Regardless of size of farms and processing facilities, many farmers and processors are confused and lack information about the FSMA and the food safety rules and regulations that may apply to them. The proposed project is trying to deliver customized versions of the FSMA information targeting owners and operators of very small and small farms, food processors, small fruit and vegetable wholesalers, food hubs, farmers markets, terminal markets and farms who are not able to attend conventional food safety training and other educational opportunities, or who find the existing training to be irrelevant to their needs. In our vast geographic region, these audiences are underserved and are very hard to reach due to their remote and isolated location. Changes/Problems:
Nothing Reported
What opportunities for training and professional development has the project provided?
Nothing Reported
How have the results been disseminated to communities of interest?The data and results from Produce Safety Rule and Preventive Controls for Human Food Rule needs assessment data has been provided to Western Regional Food Safety Outreach Program PIs, researchers, and other extension professionals through Western Regional Center to Enhance Food Safety annual conference. What do you plan to do during the next reporting period to accomplish the goals?During the next reporting period, more customized training and education materials will be provided on the project food safety website (https://nwfoodsafety.wordpress.com/home/) and on-line interactive training modules will be created and provided. In addition, short demonstration videos for various food safety practice will be produced and provided on the website (Objective 2 of the project goal). Based on our target audience demands, additional power point presentation trainings such as soil amendment, agricultural water, cottage food regulations and HACCP will be developed and provided. Case study collected from peer farmers and processors will help our target audiences understand farm and manufacturing safety (Objective 3 of the project goal). We will keep maintaining our sub-regional food safety outreach network to provide better customized food safety information for our target audiences. Also, we will communicate and collaborate with Western Regional Food Safety Center to accomplish our project goals as planned (Objective 4 of the project goal).
Impacts
What was accomplished under these goals?
Objective 1 was accomplished in Year 1. Objective 2: Develop customized training and education materials on an interactive web module using each university's extension website to provide FSMA-related information and critical updates, webinars for isolated and remote target audiences, DVDs, FSMA document forms, and an educational booklet. Currently, a food safety website for our target audiences is being developed (https://nwfoodsafety.wordpress.com/home/). The website is providing brief information on Food Safety Modernization Act (FSMA) and how to affect growers and processors through bulletin. Through this website, the training schedule will be provided in both produce safety and preventive controls for human food. The handout for training materials, handouts, documentation forms will be provided. However, the website was not developed on any of our Land-Grant university extension website since it would take more time to go through these university website development process due to many policies and protocols. In this website, web-based interactive modules for customized training and interaction with target audiences are provided. For example, the interactive modules help farmers and processors decide if they are exempt from FSMA Produce Safety Rule or Preventive Control for Human Food Rule based on decision flow charts for FSMA exemption. Through this website the audiences will evaluate themselves using self-evaluation tools after on-line learnings. Objective 3: Provide FSMA-related food safety information such as Food Safety Plan and Standard for Produce Safety (not FSMA-certified training) to target audiences through statewide workshops in each state. This would be training that is relevant to small producers and sellers and would not cover the extent of the FSPCA or PSA-approved curriculum, although materials from those courses would be used. 1) According to needs assessment surveys, majority of the participants (62.5% in PCHF and 62% in PSR) were willing to attend one or more days overview presentation/class on the FSMA requirements. For this reason, we produced Power Point Presentation trainings and materials for one-day with 2 half-day sessions, Produce Safety and Preventive Controls for Human Food. These include a) General Food Safety, b) Produce Production and Processing, c) Produce Safety Plan, d) Worker Hygiene and Sanitation, e) Food Safety Plan, and f) Good Manufacturing Practices. Development of FSMA related information or training materials has been being conducted. While these information and training materials have been developed, extension food safety programs in each land-grant university has provide basic food safety trainings and workshops through existing food safety outreach programs. To figure out what other food safety information our target audiences want to know, we conducted a few pilot trainings with current food safety training subjects and materials. And, we learned that our target audiences want more information on 1) soil amendment such as how to efficiently compost manure, 2) agricultural water such as production and post-harvest water, 3) cottage food regulation, and 4) HACCP. In addition to our customized food safety trainings, our PIs in each state have provided FSMA certified trainings such as Produce Safety Alliance (PSA) Produce Safety Grower training (9 in Idaho and 5 in Washington) and Food Safety Preventive Control Alliance (FSPCA) Preventive Controls for Human Food Preventive Control Qualified Individual (PCQI) training (2 in Idaho). Objective 4: Establish a sub-regional food safety education network in conjunction with Western Regional Food Safety Center (WRFSC) to provide customized food safety information for hard-to-reach target audiences. 1) Our project has a strong food safety outreach and education networking in the Pacific North West and Alaska conducted in accordance with the Western Regional Center to Enhance Food Safety (WRCEFS). As external advisory committee members, a PI in WRCEFS, Dr. Michael Morrissey and PNW sub-regional director, Dr. Barbara Rasco have continued to provide expertise to improve our multi-state project. Also, the PD of the project attended to report the annual progress of the project at the WRCEFS annual meeting in Davis, CA. We havecommunicatedand worked together with local and stakeholders such as farmers markets and State Department of Agriculture to provide food safety trainings and information. Even though Objective 5 was completely accomplished in Year 1,the PDs of USDA NIFA Food Safety Outreach Program in the Western region keep communicating and networking together to exchange food safety information and curriculum.
Publications
- Type:
Conference Papers and Presentations
Status:
Published
Year Published:
2017
Citation:
Kim, J.H. 2017. Food Safety Modernization Act (FSMA)-related food safety education and outreach for hard-to-reach audiences in the Pacific Northwest and Alaska using the land-grant university extension system. US-Korea Conference on Science, Technology, and Entrepreneurship. Washington D.C. Aug., 2017.
- Type:
Websites
Status:
Other
Year Published:
2018
Citation:
Agenbroad, A., Kim, J.H., Smith, S., Matney, C., and Santamaria, L. 2018. Grow it, Make it, Sell it-Safely. https://nwfoodsafety.wordpress.com/home/.
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Progress 09/01/16 to 08/31/17
Outputs
Target Audience:The project is a partnership among states in the Pacific Northwest including Alaska, Idaho, Oregon, and Washington. Land-grant university extension systems of Oregon State University, University of Alaska, University of Idaho, and Washington State University are making efforts to provide customized food safety education, training, and technical assistance to very specific target audiences such as owners and operators of very small, small, and medium-sized farms,beginning farmers, socially disadvantaged farmers small processors, and small fresh fruit and vegetable merchant wholesalers. Most of our target audiences are exempt since their annual sales are less than $24,999,or eligible for a qualified exemption form the FSMA rules after meeting certain modified requirements. Unfortunately these target audiences are very hard-to-reach groups, often in rural, remote areas. Regardless of size of farms and processing facilities, many farmers and processors are confused and lack information about the FSMA and the food safety rules and regulations that may apply to them. The proposed project is trying to delivercustomized versions of the FSMA information targeting owners and operators of very small and small farms, food processors, small fruit and vegetable wholesalers, food hubs, farmers markets, terminal markets and farms who are not able to attend conventional food safety training and other educational opportunities, or who find the existing training to be irrelevant to their needs. In our vast geographic region, these audiences are underserved and are very hard to reach due to their remote and isolated location. Changes/Problems:
Nothing Reported
What opportunities for training and professional development has the project provided?Even though the main target audiences are very small farmers and food processors who mostly exempt from the FSMA rules, the project need trainers or instructor who completely comprehend the FSMA certified trainings. For this reason, the project sponsored Produce Safety Alliance (PSA) Grower trainer and lead trainer courses and Food Safety Preventive Control Alliance (FSPCA) Preventive Control for Human Food Qualified Individual Instructor and lead instructor courses. In year 1, the project produced 6 FSPCA PCHF trainers (Oregon State University: 1, University of Alaska at Fairbanks: 1, University of Idaho: 1, and Washington State University: 3) and 10 PCA Grower trainers (Oregon State University: 2, University of Alaska: 1, University of Idaho: 4, Washington State University: 3). Of these trainers and instructors, 4 FSPCA Preventive Control for Human Food trainers and 2 PSA Grower trainers were certified as lead instructors or trainers. These trainers and instructors play very critical roles in developing FSMA related training curriculum and materials as well as delivering these food safety trainings. How have the results been disseminated to communities of interest?The project was introduced to the target audiences during the existing extension food safety program activities even though the training curriculum and teaching materials are not developed yet. Since the information on our target audiences has been already collected the food safety training curriculum will be easily conducted and the related food safety information will be disseminated once the curriculum and teaching materials are developed. The project was also presented at a national science and technology symposium, 2017 US-Korea Conference, Washington DC. In the recent research and emerging topics in food science session of Food, Agriculture, and Nutrition program, the PD emphasized the importance of the Food Safety Modernization Act outreach and education and acknowledged the current project is supported by USDA NIFA Food Safety Outreach Program. What do you plan to do during the next reporting period to accomplish the goals?In year 2, the project will develop online electronic training modules hosted in the developed FSMA food safety outreach website. The on-line training module will provide all basic information and trainings on the FSMA related food safety. This web-based training modules will also provide online decision trees for the target audiences to help to figure out if they are exempted from the FSMA compliances in both Preventive Controls for Human Food and Produce Safety Rule. For individuals who do not have access to the Internet, text-based training materials will be provided during on-site training sessions. The web-based modules and on-site training curriculum will be standardized to provide the same food safety training and education materials to all target audiences in the Northwest region and Alaska. The food safety training will also be provided through Webinars. Webinar will provide a great interactive training and education method, which can include valuable audio and visual components. Food safety practice demonstrations such as personal hygiene, sampling, cleaning and sanitizing procedures will be recorded in video-compatible format as MP4 or DVDs and disseminated to the different stakeholder groups. FSMA Rule related documents and forms will be provided in both PDF and Word document formats. The project will also provide food safety workshops and training related to FSPCA Preventive Controls for Human Food and Produce Safety. The FSPCA PCQI instructors and PSA Growers trainers in the project will provide on-site food safety workshops and trainings. If necessary these trainers or instructors could provide FSPCA certified Preventive Control Qualified Individual training and PCA Grower training as well. The project will be will be conducted in accordance with the WRFSC and the annual progress of the project will be reviewed and evaluated during the 2nd annual project meeting.
Impacts
What was accomplished under these goals?
Objective 1: Study the level of preparedness of the target audiences for FSMA rules and the rates of exemption and qualified exemption from FSMA compliance requirements. In order to accomplish Objective 1, the project has performed following activities in Year 1. 1) Two different needs assessment surveys for Preventive Controls for Human Food rules and Produce Safety Rules, have been conducted in Alaska, Idaho, Oregon, and Washington. The survey questionnaires were prepared through Principle Investigators meetings through Zoom and email communications. On-line surveys have been conducted through Qualtrics managed by Washington State University Extension and also direct contact (off-site) surveys have been performed by co-I and co-PIs in the project. 2) Through the surveys, data regarding size of farm or processing facilities, type of commodities or products, annual sales, types of farm activities, understanding of Good Agriculture Practices or Good Manufacture Practices, and understanding of FSMA rules and compliances, etc. 3) In the Preventive Controls for Human Food surveys, 62 of participants responded and 39 of them (62.9%) were food processors in the region. 58.2 of participants were aware of the FDA FSMA registration requirements and almost half of them (48.3%) are registered with the FDA. 78% of the participants have small businesses as defined by FSMA. Most of them (67.4% out of 78%) have very small business (less than 100,000). Majority of the participants (62.5%) were willing to attend one day overview presentation/class on the FSMA requirements. And they were interested in training in legal liability (21.6%), GMP (20.5%), recall plan (17.0%), food safety basics (15.9%), etc. Only 21.4% of the participants thought their food safety knowledge is advanced. In the Produce Safety Rule survey, 95 of total participants responded and most widely grown produce were berries (34.7%), fresh vegetable consumed raw (20.8%), and fresh herbs (15.8%), and tree fruits (11.4%). 80% of them were already aware of FSMA rules, but almost half of them (49.5%) were not sure if they are qualified for the exemption or exempted from the FSMA rules. 33.7% of them have average annual sale of produce during each of the previous three years less than $25,000 and 21% of them have sold more than $25,000 but less than $500,000 worth of annual food sales to consumers or to a restaurant or retail food establishment located within their states or not more than 275 miles from their farms. Fortunately most of them (92%) indicated that they have knowledge of GAP. 53% of respondents thought they need training to meet requirements for FSMA compliance and 88% of them were willing to attend one day class/workshop providing the overview of the FSMA Produce Safety Rule. 62% of the participants were willing to attend even multiday trainings. They were interested in training in worker training, health and hygiene (14.8%), compliance requirements (14.3%), record keeping (14.3%), water quality and testing (13.5%), exemptions (10.2%) biological soil amendments (9.9%), domesticated/wild animals (8.7%), etc. 4) Through these Preventive Controls for Human Food and Produce Safety Rule surveys, we could collect valuable information on the composition of our target audiences in the region in terms of their business size and FSMA rule exemption and the food safety trainings that the target audiences are interested. These will help us to conduct objectives 2 and 3 of the project. Objective 2: Develop customized training and education materials on an interactive web module using each university's extension website to provide FSMA-related information and critical updates, webinars for isolated and remote target audiences, DVDs, FSMA document forms, and an educational booklet. 1) In year 1, no noticeable activity has conducted to achieve the objective 2. However, PD and PIs had a meeting with the interactive web module expert at the College of Education, University of Idaho to develop the on-line interactive training module. The interactive web module expert has been developing the training module. 2) No data is collected. 3) No statistics and discussion of results is obtained. 4) The development of the on-line interactive training is in progress. Objective 3: Provide FSMA-related food safety information such as Food Safety Plan and Standard for Produce Safety (not FSMA-certified training) to target audiences through statewide workshops in each state. This would be training that is relevant to small producers and sellers and would not cover the extent of the FSPCA or PSA-approved curriculum, although materials from those courses would be used. 1) Development of FSMA related information or training materials1has been being conducted. While these information and training materials have been developed, extension food safety programs in each land-grant university has provide basic food safety trainings and workshops through existing food safety outreach programs. 2) Through the surveys information on our target audiences and training curriculum and materials have been collected. 3) No statistics and discussion of results has been obtained. 4) The development of FSMA Preventive Controls for Human Food and Produce Safety Rule related training curriculum and materials are in progress. Objective 4: Establish a sub-regional food safety education network in conjunction with Western Regional Food Safety Center (WRFSC) to provide customized food safety information for hard-to-reach target audiences. 1) The project is conducted in accordance with the Western Regional Food Safety Center (WRFSC). The PIs in WRFSC, Dr. Michael Morrissey and Dr. Barbara Rasco are involved in the project as external advisory committee. They attended the 1st annual project PI meeting in Boise, Idaho and provide their expertise and advice on the project performances. In addition, the PD and PIs attended the annual Western Regional Food Safety meeting hosed by WRFSC and introduced the project to other participants in the western region. 2) No data has been collected. 3) No statistics and discussion of results has been obtained. 4) The collaboration with WRFSC has been continued. Objective 5: Organize a western regional food safety community and pilot project directors meeting in accordance with WRFSC. 1) The Project Director organized hosted the Western Regional Food Safety Outreach Project PD meeting. The PD were not only to present their food safety outreach projects but also built a strong food safety networking in the western region. We concluded to collaborate one after another to develop customized food safety training curriculum and materials. 2) The projects presented in the meeting are: Food Safety Modernization Act (FSMA) related food safety education and outreach for hard-to-reach audiences in the Pacific Northwest and Alaska using current Land-Grant university Extension - Jang Ho Kim, University of Idaho, ID. Expansion and Integration of FSMA Education and Outreach for Beginning and Socially Disadvantaged Sustainable Organic Producers - Michael Frazier, Viva Farms, WA. Expansion and Integration of FSMA Education and Outreach for Beginning and Socially Disadvantaged Sustainable Organic Producers - Dave Runsten, Community Alliance with Family Farmers Foundation, CA. Seeds for increasing tribal knowledge in food safety - Channah M. Rock, University of Arizona, AZ. Hawaii roots food safety outreach project - Kaiulani Odom, Kokua Kalihi Valley Comprehensive Family Services, HI. Equipping Quality Urban Agriculture Leaders (E.Q.U.A.L.): Food safety training customized for urban and community food production systems - Eileen M. Cullen, Cal Poly Pomona Foundation, Inc. CA. 3) No statistics and discussion of results has been obtained. 4) The collaboration of the PDs in the western region was discussed and a regional food safety outreach network has been established.
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