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Food Safety Education for Retail Employees

Objective

Food safety is everyone's responsibility,from the farm to retail stores and restaurants and to the consumers. Adopting HACCP-based systems throughout the entire food chain, including the retail sector, will help ensure the highest level of food safety. Cooperation among all interested parties will help provide an efficient and effective method of training employees and implementing a HACCP-based system among the retail stores in the United States. This project will provide an opportunity to focus on implementing food safety programs at the retail level by providing retail employee training and will help to improve the overall safety of the food supply.

Investigators
Harris, Kerri
Institution
Texas A&M University
Start date
2000
End date
2000
Project number
99-41560-0771