Keep Your Healthy Food Safe

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Keep Your Healthy Food Safe

• Laura Astbury, MS, RD
• April 30, 2009

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Introduction

• Food Safety Facts
• Foodborne Illness in Arizona
• At risk populations
• Food Safety Education Resources
• Fight BAC!
• Germ City

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Food Safety Facts

• The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
  (CDC) estimates that foodborne microorganisms
  cause 76 million illnesses, 325,000
  hospitalizations and an unknown number of chronic
  conditions.1
• The CDC estimates that foodborne illness causes
  5,000 deaths each year.1
• 1Retrieved from http//www.fightbac.org/content/v
  iew/13/19/

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Food Safety Facts cont.

• USDA's Economic Research Service (ERS) estimates
  that medical costs and losses in productivity
  resulting from five bacterial foodborne pathogens
  in 2000 was 6.9 billion.1
• 1Retrieved from http//www.fightbac.org/content/v
  iew/13/19/

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Foodborne Illness in Arizona

• 2,622 reported cases of foodborne illnesses in
  2007
• 997 salmonella cases
• 962 campylobacteriosis cases
• 106 E. coli 0157H7 cases
• 12 listeriosis cases

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At Risk Populations

• Infants and young children
• Pregnant women
• Older adults
• People with weakened immune systems caused by
  cancer treatment, diabetes, AIDS, and bone marrow
  and organ transplants

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Fight BAC!

• http//www.fightbac.org/-
• Education materials
• Curriculum for kids
• Community outreach
• Community tips
• Foodborne illness information
• Seasonal press releases
• And much more

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Fight BAC! Cont.

• Grades K-3
• Information about the Partnership for Food
  Safety Education's (PFSE) FightBAC! education
  program for children in grades K-3 from planning
  to use the program to presenting the program to
  the story of BAC
• Grades 4-8Your game plan for food safety -
  experiments, games and activities
• Grades 9-12
• Directs BAC fighters to the U.S. Food and Drug
  Administration's Food Safety program for high
  school students

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• Handwashing is the single most important means
  of preventing the spreading of infection.
  -Centers for Disease Control, Atlanta,GA

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Germ City

• Germ City Clean Hands, Healthy People
• Science-based hand washing program
• Designed for use at fairs, festivals, elementary
  and middle schools, food service operations, and
  health care facilities

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Germ City

• Products
• Science-based curriculum K-8th grade with
  age-appropriate evaluation tools
• Germ City unit, CD, set-up guide and posters
• Parent newsletter and support materials for
  teachers and students
• Fair and festival guide and volunteer training
  program and a video guide
• Marketing materials pencils, tee shirts,
  stickers, clings with steps of handwashing

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Germ City
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Germ City

• Ordering information
• B. Susie Craig
• Washington State University Extension
• 200 Mill Avenue South, Suite 100
• Renton, WA 98057
• Phone [phone]
• Email scraig_at_wsu.edu
• or
• Karen A. Kerr
• Sales and Marketing Director
• High Impact Exhibits
• Tradeshow Consulting and Exhibit Sales
• Phone [phone]
• Fax [phone]

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Additional Food Safety Resources

• AzNN Food Demonstration Guide
• USDA Food Safety and Inspection Service
• Be Food Safe
• Thermy
• Fight Bac!
• Is It Done Yet?
• National Food Safety Education Month

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