Implementation of U.S. Food Safety Modernization Act - Identifying, Researching, and Implementing Alternative Methods to Expand the Reach across the Global Supply Chain

项目摘要-IICA 根据目前的建议，美洲农业合作研究所(美洲农业合作研究所)寻求 在以往成功的基础上，实施直接降低风险的高影响力干预措施 与向美国进口食品有关。具体地说，我们建议开发和测试 替代技术，大大增加高质量培训机会的可用性，使用 现有的生产安全联盟(PSA)课程和其他培训材料，如在农场 准备就绪审查(OFRR)，以支持FSMA生产安全规则(PSR)。我们将利用广泛的 在整个美洲提供移动电话，并开发基于Web和应用程序的 培训材料，不仅包含每个课程所需的培训，而且还提供 指向规则的相关部分和其他重要文档的链接，以便用户可以刷新其 根据需要获取知识。虽然有各种英文培训材料，但我们建议 通过提供西班牙语版本加强现有材料和新材料的影响 井。这种方法将利用移动技术在整个世界范围内的普及 美洲创建一组工具，满足成人学习者和非传统学习者的需求 学生们。我们将使用经过充分测试的方法和学习技术来确保可持续的知识 围绕FSMA实施建立和理解。 与学术界的合作伙伴合作，我们将设计对照实验来测试 针对面对面培训技术的替代培训材料，以更好地了解什么是和 通过替代方法可能实现的目标。使用迭代过程，我们将 开发替代培训材料，将其打包为新的交付方法，并进行测试和验证 通过试点项目提供材料和交付方式。根据这些试点的结果 项目，我们将修改和进一步测试我们的方法，目标是发布最终的、经过验证的 面向广大半球受众的产品。这些“最终”产品将在以下期限内进行评估 该项目旨在确保其持续效力，并为纠正行动提供投入。 美洲农业协会是美洲体系内的农业专门机构。指望过头了 IICA拥有75年的经验和遍布美洲的30多个办事处网络，是理想的选择 合作伙伴支持FDA满足外国公司实施FSMA的技术能力需求 拉丁美洲的政府及其行业。IICA现在是，也一直是一个强大的美国政府 在拉丁美洲和加勒比地区拥有多年的合作伙伴，并已证明有能力 在该地区实施FSMA培训。

Project Abstract - IICA With this current proposal, the Inter-American Institute for Cooperation on Agriculture (IICA) seeks to build on previous successes and implement high-impact interventions that directly reduce risks associated with importing food into the United States. Specifically, we propose to develop and test alternative technologies to greatly augment the availability of high-quality training opportunities using the existing Produce Safety Alliance (PSA) curriculum and other training materials, such as the On-Farm Readiness Review (OFRR), in support of the FSMA Produce Safety Rule (PSR). We will leverage the wide availability of mobile telephones throughout the Americas and develop web- and application-based training materials that not only incorporate requisite training per the curriculum but also provide easy links to relevant portions of the rule and other important documents so that the user can refresh their knowledge as needed. While a variety of training materials are available in English, we propose to strengthen the reach and impact of existing and new materials by making them available in Spanish as well. This approach will take advantage of the prevalence of access to mobile technology throughout the Americas to create a group of tools that address the needs of adult learners and non-traditional students. We will use well-tested approaches and learning techniques to ensure sustainable knowledge building and understanding around FSMA implementation. Working with partners in academia, we will design controlled experiments to test the efficacy of alternative training materials against in-person training techniques to better understand what is and what may be possible to achieve through alternative approaches. Using an iterative process, we will develop alternative training materials, package them into new delivery methods, and test and validated both the materials and delivery approaches through pilot projects. Based on the results of these pilot projects, we will modify and further test our approaches, with the goal of releasing final, validated products to a large, hemispheric audience. These “final” products will then be evaluated over the life of the project to ensure their continued efficacy and provide inputs for corrective actions. IICA is the specialized agency for agriculture within the Inter-American System. Counting on over seventy-five years of experience and a network of over thirty offices across the Americas, IICA is an ideal partner to support FDA to address technical capacity needs around FSMA implementation by foreign governments and their industries in Latin America. IICA is and has been a strong U.S. government partner in Latin America and the Caribbean for many years and has the demonstrated capacity to implement FSMA training in the region.