The Food Safety Sub-committee of the Food and Nutrition Section organizes a session on Food Safety each year at the Annual Meeting.  This year, it is session 5167.0 on Wednesday, Nov. 7, from 2:30-4:00 p.m.  The purpose of this year’s session is to present current information about food safety practices of the American population, factors associated with the safety of food preparation practices, and characteristics of effective food safety education.  Information will be presented about specific foods, including meat and chicken, fish, eggs, fresh produce and infant formula.  Information about produce includes both consumer and grower perspectives.

This sub-committee has also been active in APHA policy work.  We reviewed all APHA policies related to food safety and listed the outdated ones for archiving.  We wrote and submitted an over-arching food safety policy in 2006-2007, which was returned to us for revision.  We are planning to complete the revisions in time for this year’s policy cycle.

Anyone interested in participating in the committee or obtaining more information about it is encouraged to come to the oral session and to contact one of the co-chairs, Janice Adams-King (301-344-4745) or Sara Fein (301-436-1824).