Committee on Control of Foodborne Illness
Mission Statement
Reviews information on epidemiology and control of communicable diseases of primary concern to food safety and related areas, and prepares manuals and articles addressing investigation and control of food safety-related problems.
Upcoming Meeting
July 22, 2012
Rhode Island Convention Center
Providence, Rhode Island
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Committee Minutes
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Board Response to Recommendations
Board Response to Recommendations
1. Recommend the CCFI discuss further with the Board ways of marketing the procedures booklet and create a joint task force to explore ways of doing this. Strategies include: workshops, courses, downloadable app on phones, pod-casts, etc., table-top exercises. Also an international component - contacts to other countries - Springer might be willing to provide complimentary copies for distribution to members in selected developing counties (Foundation may be willing to co-sponsor this). These also should be at all the international meetings that IAFP holds. We could encourage professors to have students buy these for their food safety courses, along with the 11 bundled papers "Outbreaks where food workers have been implicated in the spread of foodborne disease."
Board Response: The Board will establish a Task Force consisting of a couple of CCFI Committee Members and a couple of Board Members. In consultation with Springer Publications the Task Force will recommend a plan on how to best proceed.
2. Recommend the Board to clarify ownership of joint IAFP/CDC (and other organization) manuals such as Waterborne Procedures and the updated Disease Transmitted by Foods (3rd edition).
Board Response: The Procedures to Investigate Waterborne Illness booklet is copyrighted by IAFP as is the Procedures to Investigate Foodborne Illness booklet. IAFP does not own copyright to the Disease Transmitted by Foods publication. An Internet search shows the 2nd edition (1982) was provided through the United States Department of Health and Human Services, Centers for Disease Control.
3. Since there is a great demand for the booklet use, recommend to the Board clarify who develops and teaches the Procedures booklets as a training and marketing tool for IAFP (suggestion that one or more members develop courses for free but the actual training could be based on a fee basis). Courses could be developed in collaboration with groups, e.g., International Food Protection Training Institute, NEHA.
Board Response: Similar to #1 above, the Board will establish a Task Force to develop a plan on how to best proceed. Members from the Food Safety Education PDG should be included.
4. Recommend that IAFP support translation of the 6th edition in other languages, e.g., Spanish, Chinese, Korean, and in this way IAFP remains in control.
Board Response: The Board endorses this effort and recommends CCFI to develop a proposal with funding requirements to request a grant from the IAFP Foundation to undertake this effort. All translations of the Procedures to Investigate Foodborne Illness must be coordinated through the IAFP office and Springer Publications.
5. Recommend that a media PDG be considered (or a part of an existing PDG) to work with Committees to use communication technologies.
Board Response: The Board recommends consulting with the Food Safety Education PDG to see what is possible.
Resources
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