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

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 食源性疾病的风险因素，并制定战略，以减少其发生，同时为公民提供 健康，规范和安全的手段，享受食品机构在特拉华州。美国食品和 美国药品管理局（FDA）以类似的节奏运作，并创建了自愿全国零售食品 监管计划标准（零售计划标准）作为零售食品 监管计划可以通过连续的流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机构生产的食品导致的疾病和死亡。一个 根据《零售计划标准》对OFP的计划进行的评估只发现了一个符合性 标准1（Regulatory Foundation）。为了更好地符合这些标准，我们 该项目旨在实现以下目标：1）获得一个信息技术（IT）解决方案，以解决 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-经过培训的监管人员）和3）增加对零售食品社区和行业的宣传 （标准7-行业和社区关系）。借助IT解决方案（数据库）-高效、准确和 及时输入和跟踪零售食品企业的许可信息，违规行为（风险因素）， 合规历史最终有助于完成趋势分析，并可用于识别 反复出现的食源性疾病风险因素。提高监管人员的教育门槛并分享 通过社区和行业合作和外展提供食品安全信息将最大限度地减少 这些风险因素的发生。通过实现这些目标，OFP将顺利实现一致性 所有其他零售计划标准。数据库本身就为满足以下要求奠定了基础 标准3（基于HACCP原则的检查程序）、4（统一检查程序）、5（食品 疾病和食物防御准备和反应）和6（遵守和执行）。标准9是 一旦达到标准1至8的一致性，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)多年来，为特拉华州零售食品企业的顾客提供安心， 用餐是由一个程序，坚持自己的最高标准。

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.