E.coli is a major food borne threat to human health. Learn various efforts and precautions farmers, science, government and you as a consumer can do to be safe.

1. E. coli: Sources, Testing and Controls
Presenter
Dr. John M. Ryan
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QIFS provides HARPC food safety and food
quality planning services to private processors,
farms, distributors, wholesalers, retail chains,
restaurant chains, and packers to help them
establish a world-class preventive process
control approach to food safety through the use
of quality systems and tools.
QIFS Services For the Food Supply Chain
Hazard Analysis and Risk-based
Preventive Controls (HARPC)
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3. 1. HARPC FSMA Food Safety and Quality Planning
2. Protecting Retailers, Restaurants and Distributors from Farm Level
Chemical and Biological Contaminants
3. Escherichia coli (E.coli): Sources, Testing and Controls
4. FDA FSMA Proposed Rules: The Sanitary Transportation of Human and
Animal Food
5. Sanitary Food Transportation Practices
6. Food Safety Problems During Transportation Operations
7. Driver Awareness of Temperature Controls and Abuse
8. Contamination and Vehicle Sanitation
9. Sanitary Food Handling
10. Documentation and Record Keeping
Training Available From QIFS and TransCert
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Agenda
Background Data and Information
The Testing Dilemma
The Eating Dilemma
Understanding “Science Based”
Risk
Sources of E.coli
Water
Food
Testing for E.coli
Technology
Time
Cost
Cross Contamination
Solutions
Controls
Prevention vs Corrective Action
Recall
Post Infection Issues
Preventive Planning
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“stated in the simplest terms, the recognized solution to the problem of foodborne
illness is a comprehensive prevention strategy that involves all participants in the food
system, domestic and foreign, doing their part to minimize the likelihood of harmful
contamination. And that is the strategy mandated by FSMA. It is not a strategy that
assumes we can achieve a zero-risk food supply, but it is a strategy grounded in the
conviction that we can better protect consumers and the economic vigor of the food
system if everyone involved implements reasonably available measures to reduce risk.
The FSMA strategy recognizes that the food industry has the primary responsibility and
capacity to produce safe food, but it calls for a new definition of public and private roles
on food safety and a modern new framework for regulatory oversight, integration of
government food safety efforts, and public-private collaboration. ”
Progress on FSMA, Changes within the FDA Foods Program, and on Partnerships
2012 FDA Science Writers Symposium
Silver Spring, MD
September 11, 2012
As prepared for delivery by
Michael R. Taylor
Deputy Commissioner for Foods
U.S. Food and Drug Administration
FSMA
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The Testing Dilemma
Immaturity of food safety profession
Lab testing is expensive and results are slow
Ship versus not ship
Data can be dangerous
Positive result? What to do?
False negatives
Federal access to records
RNA or DNA?
Opinions - microbiologists, food safety experts
Market confusion
Prevention – even if we find it, how do we prevent it?
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