Advancing Conformance With The Voluntary National Retail Food Regulatory Program Standards

For Colorado?s Retail Food Program Proposal to Expand Standardized Statewide DataSystem Capture of Inventory and Inspection Results in Support of the Voluntary National Retail Food Regulatory Program StandardsThe intent of this cooperative agreement award is to increase the number of local public healthagencies in Colorado using a statewide Retail Food Program data system. In an effort toexpand uniformity among the local regulatory programs responsible for food protection inColorado, the goal of this cooperative agreement is to assist the 18 local agencies that currentlyuse disparate data systems in a migration to the statewide data platform. This project willimprove conformance with multiple Retail Food Regulatory Program Standards, includingStandards 1, 3, 4, 6 and 8.The pace and order of local agencies migrating into the Colorado Retail Food data system willbe determined by the pace at which those agencies can prepare data into formats suitable formigration, the effective date of pending regulation revisions, the stability of current local datasystems, and availability of funds. This project anticipates at least two and as many as fivecounties migrating into the Colorado data system each year during the three-year project period.