Advancing Retail Program Standards Conformance through Sustainable Technology, Continuing Education and Community Connection in Delaware

通过特拉华州的可持续技术、继续教育和社区联系促进零售项目标准的一致性

• 批准号: 9143070
• 负责人: Ralph Mead Matthews
• 金额: $ 6.62万
• 依托单位: DELAWARE DIVISION OF PUBLIC HEALTH
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 财政年份: 2015
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2015-09-10 至 2020-06-30
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/9143070
• 关键词: Advancing; Retail; Program; Standards; Conformance

The State of Delaware Office of Food Protection (OFP) is a public service office that was created to identify foodborne illness risk factors and develop strategies to reduce their occurrence, all while providing citizens a healthy, regulated and safe means to enjoy food establishments in the State of Delaware. The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) operates in like cadence and has created the Voluntary National Retail Food Regulatory Program Standards (Retail Program Standards) as a model of standards by which retail food regulatory programs may uniformly develop and administer a program through continuous process improvements. Enrollment in and conformance with these Retail Program Standards will foster a program that works to eliminate the occurrence of illness and death from foods produced at retail food establishments. An assessment of OFP’s program against the Retail Program Standards identified conformance with only one standard, Standard 1(Regulatory Foundation). To achieve greater conformance with these Standards our project proposes to accomplish the following goals: 1) attain an Information Technology (IT) solution to address programmatic needs (Standard 8 – Support and Resources), 2) provide continuing education to regulatory staff (Standard 2 – Trained Regulatory Staff) and 3) increase outreach to retail food community and industry (Standard 7 – Industry and Community Relations). With an IT solution (database)- efficient, accurate and timely input and tracking of retail food establishment permitting information, violations (risk factors) and compliance history ultimately lends way to the ability to complete a trend analysis and may be used to identify recurring foodborne illness risk factors. Increasing the education threshold of our regulatory staff and sharing food safety information through community and industry collaborations and outreach will minimize the occurrence of such risk factors. By meeting these goals OFP will be well on the way to achieving conformance with all other Retail Program Standards. The database alone sets the groundwork for advancement to meet Standards 3 (Inspection program based on HACCP Principles), 4 (Uniform Inspection Program), 5 (Foodborne Illness and Food Defense Preparedness and Response) and 6 (Compliance and Enforcement). Standard 9 is the Program Assessment which will occur once conformance with Standards 1 through 8 is achieved. This opportunity will bring the state of Delaware in to conformance with all 9 Retail Program Standards within five (5) years, providing patrons of Delaware retail food establishments peace of mind that the places in which they dine are regulated by a program that holds itself to the highest Standards.

特拉华州食品保护办公室 (OFP) 是一个公共服务办公室，旨在识别 食源性疾病风险因素并制定减少其发生的策略，同时为公民提供 在特拉华州享受健康、规范和安全的餐饮场所。美国食品和 药品管理局 (FDA) 以类似的节奏运作，并创建了自愿国家零售食品 监管计划标准（零售计划标准）作为零售食品所依据的标准模型 监管计划可以通过连续过程统一开发和管理计划 改进。注册并遵守这些零售计划标准将促进一个计划 致力于消除零售食品企业生产的食品引起的疾病和死亡。一个 根据零售计划标准对 OFP 的计划进行评估，发现仅符合一项 标准，标准 1（监管基础）。为了更好地遵守这些标准，我们 项目建议实现以下目标： 1) 获得信息技术 (IT) 解决方案来解决 计划需求（标准 8 – 支持和资源），2) 为监管人员提供继续教育 （标准 2 – 训练有素的监管人员）和 3）增加对零售食品社区和行业的影响 （标准 7 – 行业和社区关系）。拥有IT解决方案（数据库）——高效、准确、 及时录入并跟踪零售食品经营场所许可信息、违规（风险因素）和 合规历史记录最终有助于完成趋势分析，并可用于识别 反复发生食源性疾病的危险因素。提高监管人员学历门槛并共享 通过社区和行业合作及推广，食品安全信息将最大限度地减少 此类危险因素的发生。通过实现这些目标，OFP 将顺利实现一致性 与所有其他零售计划标准。仅数据库就为满足以下要求奠定了基础： 标准 3（基于 HACCP 原则的检验计划）、4（统一检验计划）、5（食源性食品） 疾病和食品防护准备和响应）和 6（合规和执行）。标准9是 一旦符合标准 1 至 8，将进行计划评估。这 机会将使特拉华州在五年内符合所有 9 项零售计划标准 (5) 年，让特拉华州零售食品店的顾客放心，他们所在的地方 餐饮受到严格遵守最高标准的计划的监管。