Reduction of Risk Factor Associated w/ Foodborne Illness

罗德岛州卫生部的使命是预防和保护疾病，并促进 罗德岛人民的健康和安全。作为环境健康专家的参与者 网络(EHS-Net)、食品保护办公室、传染病办公室和 实验室将与环境健康风险专家(EHS)密切合作，以确定 餐馆、学校、医疗保健设施、零售食品机构等 食源性疾病。一旦确定了风险因素并揭示了其根本原因，我们就会开展工作 与我们的合作伙伴机构密切合作，制定有效的培训计划，供RL的FoodManager使用 认证计划。还将酌情向食品检查员和其他机构提供培训， 都与食品安全有关。为了衡量培训计划的有效性，食品和药物管理局 Protection和EHS将进行一项队列研究，以检查改善食品安全与 减少与食源性疾病相关的风险因素的培训方案。随后， 这项研究的信息将与食品安全机构和EHS-Net参与者共享，用作 增强他们食品安全的工具。 我们期望通过制定和实施加强的食品安全培训 计划实施后，人群中的食源性疾病将显著减少。这是符合 RL卫生部预防疾病、保护和促进 罗德岛人民的健康和安全。

The Rhode Island Department of Health's mission is disease prevention and protection and promotion of the health and safety of the people of Rhode Island. As a participant in the Environmental Health Specialist Network (EHS-Net), the Office of Food Protection, the Office of Communicable Diseases, and the Division of Laboratories will work closely with the Environmental Health Risk Specialist (EHS) to identify risk factors in restaurants, schools, health care facilities, retail food establishments, etc., that are associated with foodborne illness. Once the risk factors are identified and their underlying causes are revealed, we will work closely with our partner agencies to develop an effectivetraining program to be utilized in Rl's FoodManager Certification Program. Training will also be provided to food inspectors and other agencies, asappropriate, that are involved in food safety. To measure the efficacy of the training program, the Office of Food Protection and the EHS will conduct a cohort study to examine the association of the improved foodsafety training program with the reduction of risk factors associated with foodborne disease. Subsequently, the information from the study will be shared with food safety agencies and EHS-Net participants to be used as a tool for enhancing their food safetyefforts. We would expect that through the development and implementation of an enhanced food safety training program, that foodborne disease in the population would be significantly reduced. This is in accordance with the Rl Department of Health's mission statement of preventing disease and protecting and promoting the health and safety of the people of Rhode Island.