WV Food and Feed Rapid Response Team

西弗吉尼亚州公共卫生局(WVBPH)和西弗吉尼亚州 农业部(WVAg)将建立一个名为西部的合作伙伴关系 弗吉尼亚州食品和饲料快速反应小组(WVRRT)。的首要目标是 团队将预防和减少疾病。WVRRT将包括来自 WVBPH和WVAg，涵盖食品、饲料、动物健康、流行病学、 实验室和环境健康准备协调员办公室。 WVRRT将在现有方案的基础上进行改进，整合应急响应 制定计划，通过联合培训提高员工的能力，并制定 向公众和供应商提供与疾病预防相关的教育。WVRRT将 提高对制造食品监管程序标准的符合性。 WVRRT计划聘请一名顾问与WVBPH和WVAg合作，以带来 将每个合作伙伴的能力和能力结合在一起。每个机构都有规定， 制定具有预防疾病总体目标的政策和程序。一个 顾问将从每个计划中获取最佳实践，并协助制定 针对任何食品或饲料疾病或威胁的多机构反应。 其他拟议工作包括食品暴发调查培训、食品、饲料和 环境抽样培训，以及购买所需的设备和检测工具包， 开发一个将副产品作为动物饲料销售的制造商数据库，并提供 为制造商和农民提供教育材料，协调和更新 各机构关于食品和饲料威胁或暴发的紧急反应计划， 并收集GPS数据并开发所有饲料和食品制造商的地理信息系统地图， 仓库和分销商。 WVRRT将增强WVBPH和WVAg保护健康的能力 人类和动物。通过预防减少已确认的疾病病例 以及对与饲料和食物有关的暴发和威胁的快速反应。所有建议 团队成员对这笔资金将带来的目标感到兴奋。

The West Virginia Bureau for Public Health (WVBPH) and the West Virginia Department of Agriculture (WVAg) will form a collaborative partnership called the West Virginia Food and Feed Rapid Response Team (WVRRT). The overarching goal of the team will be preventing and reducing illness. The WVRRT will include staff from WVBPH and WVAg which encompasses Food, Feed, Animal Health, Epidemiology, Labs, and the Office of Environmental Health Readiness Coordinator. The WVRRT will improve upon current programs, integrate emergency response plans, enhance capabilities of staff through joint training and develop methods of providing public and vendor education related to illness prevention. The WVRRT will enhance conformance with the Manufactured Foods Regulatory Program Standards. The WVRRT plans to hire a consultant to work with WVBPH and WVAg to bring together the capacities and capabilities of each partner. Each agency has regulations, policies and procedures in place with overarching goals for the prevention of disease. A consultant will pull best practices from each program and assist with the development of a multiagency response for any food or feed illness or threat. Other proposed work include food outbreak investigation training, food, feed, and environmental sampling training, as well as purchase required equipment and test kits, develop a database of manufacturers who sell by-product as animal feed and provide educational materials for the manufacturer and the farmer, coordinate and update agencies emergency response plans in relation to food and feed threats or outbreaks, and collect GPS data and develop GIS mapping of all feed and food manufacturers, warehouses, and distributors. The WVRRT will enhance the ability of WVBPH and WVAg to protect the health of humans and animals. Recognized cases of illness will be reduced through prevention and rapid response to outbreak and threats related to feed and food. All proposed team members are excited about the goals that this funding will bring to fruition.