Advancing Connecticut's Conformance with the FDA Retail Food Regulatory Program Standards

项目摘要 康涅狄格州公共卫生部(CT DPH)食品保护计划 (FPP)寻求通过提高食品质量来降低食源性疾病的风险 由当地卫生部门对食品服务机构进行检查。一个 国家和地区都认识到缺乏统一的食品法规。 在康涅狄格州，由FPP、当地卫生部门和食品行业共同发起。联邦政府 美国食品和药物管理局(FDA)开发了国家自愿零售食品 监管计划标准，以提高监管计划之间的一致性 负责执行食品保护法。这个项目的目标是实现 符合标准#4，统一检验计划，通过制定自己的 将由当地卫生部门使用的评估和质量保证计划 和自由人民党。 有了兼职工作人员，fpp将有必要的资源投入到 制定、审查、试点和促进地方政府的自我评估计划 卫生部门。该计划将被当地卫生部门用来审查 检查数据，重点是确定风险因素违规的频率 食源性疾病。太多时候，重点是检查完成的数量 而不是检查的质量，这可以对确保 对最常导致食源性疾病的违规行为进行识别和纠正。本地 卫生部门的监督人员将利用该计划与工作人员合作，解决任何 注意到不足之处。 FPP还将制定并使用质量保证计划来审计 当地卫生部门进行自我评估，以确保发现不足之处 并由当地卫生部门处理。FPP可以帮助当地的健康 各部门通过发展和提供这项服务来提高检查的统一性 为他们的使用编写程序。

Project Summary The Connecticut Department of Public Health (CT DPH) Food Protection Program (FPP) seeks to reduce the risk for foodborne disease by improving the quality of inspections of food service establishments conducted by local health departments. A lack of uniform application of food regulations has been recognized both nationally and in Connecticut by the FPP, local health departments, and the food industry. The Federal Food and Drug Administration (FDA) developed the Voluntary National Retail Food Regulatory Program Standards to improve uniformity among regulatory programs with responsibility for enforcing food protection laws. The goal of this project is to achieve conformance with Standard #4, Uniform Inspection Program, by developing self- assessment and quality assurance programs to be used by the local health departments and the FPP. With a part-time staff person, the FPP will have the resources necessary to devote to the development, review, pilot, and promotion of a self-assessment program for local health departments. The program will be utilized by local health departments to review inspection data with a focus on the frequency of identification of risk factor violations for foodborne disease. Too often the focus is on the number of inspections completed rather than the quality of inspections that can have the most impact on ensuring the violations that most often cause foodborne illness are identified and corrected. Local health department supervisors will use the program to work with staff to address any noted deficiencies. A quality assurance program will also be developed and used by the FPP to audit the local health department self-assessments to ensure that deficiencies are recognized and addressed by the local health departments. The FPP can assist local health departments in improving the uniformity of inspections by developing and providing this program for their use.