Food Safety AOE Team Meeting
April 24, 2000 · 10:30am - 1:30pm
162 Food Safety & Toxicology Building
Michigan State University
Participants: Les Bourquin,
Ellen DeFay, Toby Ten Eyck, Melissa Williment, Carol Wruble, Jennifer Wagester,
Chris Vanderpool, Craig Harris, Cathy Pisano, Lisa Treiber, Roberta Rodgers,
Sam Varghese, Oliver Duran, Roger Brook, Karen Shirer, and Cheri Booth.
10:35am Les Bourquin opened
the meeting with an overview of the meeting agenda and participant
introductions.
The
Food Safety AoE Team developed a mission statement, a vision statement, and
curriculum through the Dacum process at the January meeting. The Dacum results were distributed
during the meeting. Minutes from
the January meeting and copies of the mission and vision statements will be
mailed to the Food Safety AoE Team members in the near future.
Initiative for Future
Agriculture and Food Systems (IFAFS),
Section 401, Due May 22, 2000 (A copy of the RFP was provided.)
The Food Safety AoE Team members reviewed the RFP for the IFAFS funds. The following areas were determined to be possible focus areas for a FY2000 proposal: 1) Program Area 11, Agricultural Biotechnology. 2) Program Area 12, Food Safety and the Role of Nutrition in Health. (Please see the handout “Highlights of the Cooperative State Research, Education, and Extension Service Request for Proposals: Initiative for Future Agriculture and Food Systems, FY2000" for a summary of the RFP.)
National Food Safety Initiative (NFSI), Section 406, Due June 6, 2000 (A copy of the RFP was provided.)
The RFP for the NFSI was reviewed. The following areas were identified as possibilities for proposals: 1) Priority 5, Improving the Safety of Fresh Fruits and Vegetables. 2) Priority 6, Food Handler Education and Training for Consumer and Youth. 3) Priority 7, Food Handler Education for High-risk and Hard-to-reach Audiences. 4) Priority 8, Food Handler Education for Commercial and Non-Commercial Audiences. 5) Priority 9, Hazard Analysis and Critical Control Points Model Development, Testing and Implementation. 6) Priority 11, National Coordination of Integrated Food Safety Programs and Resources. (Please see the handout “Highlights of the Integrated Research, Education, and Extension Competitive Grants Program National Food Safety Initiative FY2000 RFP" for a summary of the RFP.)
| FSQI |
Corresponding NFSI Category |
End Date | Award | PI |
| Plan of Work | (6,7,8) | 9/2000 | $30K | Bourquin |
| Fresh Juice HACCP Alliance | (9) | 9/2000 | $109K | Bourquin, Hirsch |
| FSQI |
Corresponding NFSI Category |
End Date | Award | PI |
| Food Handler Education for Consumers & Youth |
(6) | 9/2001 | $100K | Varghese |
| Food Safety Education for Bay Mills |
(8,9) | 9/2000 | $50K | Booren, Kinnunen |
IFAFS, Program Area 11
Chris Vanderpool, Toby Ten Eyck, Larry Busch,
Craig Harris and other colleagues are
currently working on a proposal for an integrated multidisciplinary project to develop ex ante methods of assessment,
initially for several emergent plant
biotechnologies, but applicable to any
developing technology. These
will permit all interested parties, including
the developers of the new technologies, to choose among alternative possible forms of the new technologies. Ex ante methods will permit authoritative groups to decide whether
to proceed with the development and implementation
of the new technologies. Ex ante
methods will enable developers to modify
the emergent technologies to avert potential negative impacts.
The techniques for ex ante assessment will be developed through the collaborative
efforts of biophysical and social scientists. Some of the support for this effort will come from graduate
research assistants in the social and biophysical sciences. Students from both areas will develop
an understanding of the techniques for generating knowledge in the other area,
will learn how to speak the language of the other area, and will come to understand
the culture of the other area.
On the basis of the ex ante assessment techniques, issue templates suitable
for a wide range of audiences will be developed.
These materials will allow them to evaluate the environmental, health,
social and economic consequences of specific plant biotechnologies. The graduate research assistants from both the biophysical
and social sciences will work jointly on the development of these materials.
The materials will be adapted to various audiences, and presented through
workshops to national and international groups.
Workshops will be particularly designed to train teachers and non-governmental
organization leaders, who will have opportunities to implement the materials
and evaluation processes in their work. A follow-up evaluation will investigate
how the materials and activities ultimately reach citizens and consumers,
and what impact they have on the decisions of these groups.
Anyone
interested in being involved with this proposal can contact either Chris Vanderpool or Craig Harris.
Carol
Wruble is interested in looking at the factors that influence food choice, perhaps
in regards to functional foods.
Another component of this project could be posting the information on
the web and evaluating if and how information might be used to make behavior
changes. Those working on the proposal
could work with Michigan agricultural products, state government partners, and specific
high-risk audiences to test the web technology and look at the food choices that
people make in relation to their health.
Chris Harris suggested adding target groups to some of the work that Toby
Ten Eyck has done in this area. The
factors identified as major elements in the food choices that people make could
then be used to enhance the effectiveness of Extension education.
Carol
Wruble, Toby Ten Eyck, and all those interested in this potential proposal will
meet on Friday April 28th at 12 noon in the 4-H Children's
Garden at MSU. Anyone who
would like to be involved in this project is welcome to attend.
Les
Bourquin will create a proposal for this priority. Anyone who would like to provide input regarding this
proposal is welcome. The National
Food Safety Database that was created at Florida State University has not been
updated or reviewed. The proposal
could propose creating a database that could be shared and updated periodically.
The
Food Safety Task Force is interested in creating a proposal that could fall
into either priority 6 or 7. A
meeting will be held 10am May 5th at the MSUE Washtenaw County
Extension Office in Ann Arbor to work on creating the proposal. Ellen DeFay will coordinate this
meeting. All those who are
interested in working on a proposal for food handler education are welcome.
Les
Bourquin will contact Jan Seitz, Mary Bellows, May Mong, and Al Booren to discuss
the possibility to putting together a proposal for this area.
Les
Bourquin will talk with the group who is looking to submit a proposal to the Michigan
Life Sciences Corridor Fund about adding an outreach component to their
research on blueberries, crab apples, and dry beans and submitting it to IFAFS. Les will also contact Bob Gravani (Cornell
Univ.) about potentially submitting a proposal to either IFAFS and/or NFSI with
collaboration from the consortia on Good Agricultural Practices Training for
Fresh Fruit and Vegetable Producers.
May
12th Agriscience Teachers Food Safety Training (Contact Sam
Varghese)
June
20th “Ask The Experts” Training Workshop (Contact Carol Wruble)
July
7th Food Safety Alliance Meeting (Contact Ed Mather)
July
11th-12th Risk Communication in Food Safety Conference
(Contact Toby Ten Eyck)
July 17th-21st International
Short Course in Food Safety (Contact Institute for International Agriculture)
August
22nd-24th Seafood HACCP Course (Contact Ron Kinnunen)
October
10th-12th Fall Extension Conference (Contact Cynthia Cook-Straus)
The next Food Safety
AoE Team Meeting will be held June 19th at 9:30am in room 1240
Anthony Hall at Michigan State University. Detailed
information regarding this meeting is forthcoming.
1:50pm Meeting Adjourned.