Modernizing Expanding and Measuring the Impact of FDA Food Safety Initiatives

Project Summary:Modernizing Expanding and Measuring the Impact of FDA on Food SafetyInitiativesIn this CoAg we plan to take advantage of the alternative technologies developed to keepaugmenting the availability of high-quality training opportunities to support the FSMAsProduce Safety Rule and other Rules implementation. These findings led to thedevelopment of the Growing Safe Produce"/ "Produciendo con Inocuidad which was testedby JIFSAN and promoted in the second Cooperative Agreement. A previous study fromIICA discovered the wide availability of mobile phones and internet usage throughout theAmericas and we will continue to leverage these findings.We will continue developing videos web- and app-based training materials that not onlyincorporate requisite training per the curriculum but also provide easy links to relevantportions of the Rule and other important documents so that the user can refresh theirknowledge.This approach will take advantage of the prevalence of access to mobile technologythroughout the Americas to create a group of tools that address the needs of adult learnersand non-traditional students. We will use well-tested approaches and learning techniquesto ensure sustainable knowledge building and understanding around FSMAimplementation. Working with partners in academia we will measure the outreach of thematerials through descriptive statistics and develop case studies to measure impact.