Food Protection Rapid Response Team and Program Infrastructure Improvement Implem

全食品危害快速反应小组 项目摘要/摘要 加州公共卫生部(CDPH)，食品和药物分部(FDB)，食品 安全计划是为了预防和应对与食品和食品有关的问题和紧急情况。我们 在整个过程中，通过预防努力和积极干预和应对相结合的方式实现这一目标 整个食物链。为此，我们成立了加州食品应急小组， 或CalFERT，一个“所有食品危害快速反应小组(RRT)”，以提高效率和 我们应对粮食紧急情况的有效性，无论是无意的还是通过有目的的行动。 我们提议的计划的主要目标是进一步发展、实施和维持加州的 有能力对食品和食品紧急情况做出快速反应。这将需要增加三名工作人员 来自根据这笔赠款授权的基金的成员，这将增强该计划的执行能力 利用事故指挥系统(ICS)进行调查和制定RRT协议； 购买更多的技术和采样设备及用品；开发和提供 专门针对商品的培训课程；加强机构间协作、合作和 沟通；符合制造食品管理程序标准的情况 (MFRPS)，以及；加强与其他州的RRT方案的协调和互动。 因此，我们要求为今后两年每年提供50万美元的赠款资金。这将会 增强当前的CDPH能力，并提供必要的基础设施来进行环境保护 在食品和饲料紧急情况下的调查、追查和执法活动，从而 提高我们在紧急情况下采取行动的准备。资金还将使我们能够获得必要的 培训以磨练我们的内部技能，提高关键资源的可用性，增加信息 联邦、州和地方机构之间的共享，改进继任规划并维持RRT 在这一授权期之后。 无法发展和维持加州的RRT计划将对该州的食品不利 安全计划，并将在全国产生反响。加利福尼亚州是美国最大的玉米生产国 许多重要的农产品，包括乳制品、绿叶蔬菜、水果、蔬菜和坚果作物。一个 影响这些大宗商品的危机将对加州数百万消费者造成负面影响 国家和世界。过去的全国性食源性疾病暴发证明了这一点 可以追溯到加利福尼亚州，例如2006年与菠菜和 导致数千人患病的生菜(当考虑漏报时)。对经济的影响 由于对粮食的需求减少，此类粮食紧急情况可能造成数亿美元的损失 由于消费者对食品供应失去信心，对大宗商品的信心下降。

An All Food Hazards Rapid Response Team Project Summary/Abstract The mission of the California Department of Public Health (CDPH), Food and Drug Branch's (FDB), Food Safety Program is to prevent and react to food and food-related problems and emergencies. We accomplish this with a combination of prevention efforts and active intervention and response throughout the entire food chain. Toward that end we have created the California Food Emergency Response Team, or CalFERT, an "All Food Hazards Rapid Response Team (RRT)," to increase the efficiency and effectiveness of our response to food emergencies, whether unintentional or through purposeful acts. The primary objective of our proposed program is to further develop, implement, and sustain California's ability to rapidly respond to food and feed emergencies. This would entail the addition of three staff members from the funds authorized under this grant that will enhance the program's ability to conduct investigations utilizing the Incident Command System (ICS) and development of RRT protocols; the purchase of additional technical and sampling equipment and supplies; the development and provision of commodity-specific training courses; the strengthening of interagency collaboration, cooperation, and communication; achievement of compliance with the Manufactured Food Regulatory Program Standards (MFRPS), and; enhancement of coordination and interactions with other states' RRT programs. Accordingly, we are requesting $500,000 in grant funds for each of the next two years. This would augment current CDPH capabilities and provide the necessary infrastructure to conduct environmental investigations, tracebacks, and enforcement activities during food and feed emergencies, thereby improving our readiness to act in emergencies. Funding would also allow us to obtain the necessary training to sharpen our internal skill set, improve the availability of critical resources, increase information sharing among federal, state and local agencies, improve on succession planning and sustain the RRT beyond this grant period. An inability to develop and sustain California's RRT program would be detrimental to the state's Food Safety Program and would have national repercussions. California is the nation's largest producer of many important agricultural commodities including dairy, leafy greens, fruit, vegetable, and nut crops. A crisis impacting those commodities would negatively impact millions of consumers in California, the nation, and the world. This has been demonstrated by past national foodborne illness outbreaks that were traced back to California such as the 2006 E. coli O157:H7 outbreaks associated with spinach and lettuce that resulted in thousands of illnesses (when considering under-reporting). The economic impact of such food emergencies can cost hundreds of millions of dollars due to decreased demands for food commodities because of loss of consumer confidence in the food supply.