Local Health District Integrated Food Defense and Training In Large Retail Food Establishments

摘要 凯霍加县卫生局(CCBH)是823,000人口的公共卫生当局 位于俄亥俄州东北部的大克利夫兰大都市区内。这个项目的目的是 是将粮食防御准备纳入我们强制的粮食保护计划，以增加 在大型零售杂货店连锁店内做好准备。杂货店连锁店是常见的食品 为社区中的大多数居民和企业提供资源，并可以在许多地方实施新政策 同时开店。在这些设施中实施食品防御将是迅速的，并将获得好处 通过保护社会各阶层的食物供应。这将通过评估 在强制检查和与行业合作期间，这些设施中的漏洞 代表们创造了一种食品防备文化。 杂货店高管将被邀请参加利益相关者会议，以审查食品防御政策草案 以及旨在将粮食防御缓解战略嵌入其行动的标语牌。最初的食物 防御准备情况评估将在未经宣布的强制食品安全检查期间进行 55家25,000平方英尺及以上的杂货连锁店。弱点将被记录在杂货店内的 美国食品和药物管理局(FDA)的自我评估工具。在初始场结束时 评估，记录在评估工具上的数据将被分析食品防御弱点。这个 CCBH随后将使用该分析来设计包含缓解策略的定制食品防御工具包 并将标语牌落实到每个连锁店的零售设施的运营中。跟进食物防御 将在每个设施进行准备评估，并产生工具包实施前和工具包后的结果 结果。将在低于可接受标准的设施中进行有针对性的食品防御培训，以便员工 可以实时了解他们的食品保护漏洞。我们的“全面食品保护” 公众意识活动将通过公开承认这些杂货店来加强该项目 示范堪称典范的食品防御和食品安全做法，并指导公众 CCBH的食品保护网页。为了造福国家，开发的工具和技术将是 易于复制，并可通过CCBH的网站和FDA资源广泛获得。

Abstract The Cuyahoga County Board of Health (CCBH) is the public health authority for a population of 823,000 located in Northeast Ohio within the Greater Cleveland Metropolitan area. The purpose of this project is to integrate food defense preparedness within our mandated food protection program to increase readiness within large retail grocery store chains. Grocery stores chains serve as the common food source for most residents and businesses in communities and can implement new policies in many stores concurrently. Food defense implementation in these facilities would be rapid, and reap benefits by protecting the food supply for all segments of society. This will be achieved by assessing vulnerabilities within these facilities during mandated inspections, and collaborating with industry representatives to create a culture of food defense preparedness. Grocery store executives will be invited to a stakeholders meeting to review draft food defense policies and placards designed to embed food defense mitigation strategies into their operations. Initial food defense preparedness assessments will occur during unannounced mandated food safety inspections of 55 grocery chain stores 25,000 ft2 and over. Weaknesses will be recorded within grocery stores on a modified Food and Drug Administration (FDA) self-assessment tool. At the conclusion of the initial field assessments, data recorded on the assessment tool will be analyzed for food defense weaknesses. The CCBH will then use the analysis to design customized food defense toolkits containing mitigation policies and placards to implement into the operation of each chain’s retail facility. Follow up food defense preparedness assessments will occur at each facility and yield pre- and post- toolkit implementation results. Targeted food defense trainings will occur at facilities below acceptable standards so employees can gain real-time awareness of their food protection vulnerabilities. Our “Complete Food Protection” public awareness campaign will reinforce the project by publicly recognizing those grocery stores demonstrating exemplary food defense and food safety practices, as well as by directing the public to CCBH’s food protection webpages. To benefit the nation, the tools and techniques developed will be easily replicated and widely available through CCBH’s website and FDA resources.