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will county health department food safety


[ music ] good morning. i first walked into this room almost eightyears ago to the day. not as an fda employee, but rather as a state employee with the floridadepartment of agriculture and consumer services. i was here to receive training on how to conductacidified food inspections. and for those of you who are not familiar with the subject,acidification is a process for which you take a low acid food and you turn it into a acidfood. and if you've ever home canned beans or vegetables, then you've created an acidfood. most vegetables are low acid foods. the results when done properly is a safe shelfstable product, but when done improperly the

spores of a bacterium clostridium botulinumcan germinate, grow and produce the most acutely lethal toxin know, botulinum toxin. in onewhere mere nanograms an amount smaller than the naked eye can see, can cause death. oneof the first speakers at the course was a gentleman by the name of captain calvin edwardsand he recounted the story of a husband and wife, high school sweethearts by the namesof sam and grace cochran. and it goes like this. it had been a hot stifling day in bedfordvillage, new york and sam and grace cochran thought what better than a nice cool bowlof vichyssoise soup for dinner. now vichyssoise soup is traditionally served cold. so gracecracked open a can of bon vivant vichyssoise soup and almost immediately noticed an offodor with it. nevertheless, she brought a

shallow bowl to sam and asked if he thoughtsomething was amiss. sam took a spoonful of soup and placed it in his mouth and immediatelyspit it out. simultaneously grace placed her spoon to her mouth and before putting in hermouth sam stopped her and said, "i think the soup is spoiled, let's have something elsefor dinner." soon after they ended their day and the next morning sam awoke complainingof double vision. a few hours later he had trouble moving his arms and legs and by day'send sam was dead. doctors were baffled and it wasn't until grace began to exhibit similarsymptoms that they began to suspect botulism. after all it had been over 40 years sincethey last seen botulism in their area. by week's end grace's life was narrowly saved,but left in the wake was a devastated family,

a nation on pins and needles wondering ifthe soup in the cupboard would lead to their demise and an industry teetering on the brinkof collapse. help was needed. so recognizing that process standards were very much in need,fda was asked for assistance and soon after the low acid canned food regulations werecreated. and shortly after that regulations governing the production of acidified foods.the story of sam and grace was powerful and captain edwards training approach effective.after completing the course a return to florida to help train the 150 strong state inspectorateon how to perform this type of inspection. i recounted the story of sam and grace andof the bon vivant company. by the way, if you visit the lobby you'll see a glass displaycase and within that display case you'll see

an actual can of the bon vivant vichyssoisesoup. as chance would have it, about a year later i was back in this room, but not asa state employee, but rather as fda's lead training officer on the conducting acidifiedfood inspections course. important events have transpired in this room. not only formy career, but for the direction of our training. we're meeting here this week to discuss topicsthat are important to all of us. how can we improve our training program? where can wefind opportunities for collaboration? how can we leverage our resources? these are justsome of the questions we'll begin to answer at our training summit this week. and it'swith hope that about a year from now we're back in this room, or maybe another one likeit, sharing our stories of growth and collaboration

as we continue our work towards achievingour part of an integrated food safety system. today i'd like to share with you informationon partnership for food protection training certification work group. who we are and whatwe're working on, but before doing so and as someone who's spent much of their careertraveling and training, i wanted to take a moment to quickly discuss some of the materialsin front of you, namely your folders. so if you look within your folders you'll see aset of maps. there's a dhrd map and it will help you find locations that are close byto eat on breaks and during lunch. there is also another map for the even hotel for guestswho are staying there that identifies nearby eateries. a third map is for the dc metrosystem. after all dc is just a hop, skip,

and a few metro stops away on the red line.you could check that out there. there's also a brochure right here that will help you stayconnected with training and certification initiatives and also give you some informationon the training summit goals this week. the fourth and final piece is the main curriculumframework, and i'll speak more on this later. now, a few moments ago i mentioned that ispent a good portion of my career traveling and training. i always found it interestingto learn a little bit about the place i was visiting that i didn't already know. abouthalf of us here today are local to rockville, the other half are visiting. you may or maynot know that rockville was once known as hungerford tavern. as is the case with manyplaces, over the course of years the names

of cities and towns change. in 1750 a manby the name of charles hungerford created a tavern bearing his name. it was an importantplace to socialize, share news and stories, negotiate business deals, and enjoy a littleentertainment all while having a beer or 12. [laughs] it was also a place to discuss politicsand george washington, benjamin franklin, thomas jefferson, patrick henry, and manyothers considered hungerford tavern important part of the lives. and in the coming yearsthis place helped fan the flames of revolution. on june 11, 1774, hungerford tavern hosteda group of maryland patriots and they wanted to protest britain's new taxes and also proclaimsupport for the city of boston, which had seen it' harbor blocked after the boston teaparty the previous december. from their discussions

came five decorative statements or resolutionsknown as the hungerford resolves. and one statement ranked above all the rest. therewas a call for freedom and independence from great britain. a fairly significant statementand one that was made a full two years before the declaration of independence, which islargely credited to another hungerford tavern patron, thomas jefferson. it's also a statementthat allows us to meet here today to discuss another somewhat revolutionary topic in termsof training, and that's national curriculum standard development. before i speak moreon that, i like to tell you about the training certification workgroup and who we are. theworkgroup is one of the original three partnership for food protection workgroups, and got itsstart following a 2008, 50 state meeting.

today it's made up of approximately 50 federalstate and local food and feed investigators, inspectors. we also have [inaudible speaker]and they also have knowledge on laboratory analysis. the group is advised by four co-chairs,who in turn deliver regular updates and the products of the workgroup to the governingcouncil. our first co-chair is stan stromberg. stan is a state member. yay. yes. [laughs] i say that all the time wheni introduce him myself too. [laughs] from the oklahoma department of agriculture, foodand forestry, where he serves as the director, stan is also the president of the associationof food and drug officials or aofado. jim

phere [phonic] is a federal member from fda'soffice of regulatory affairs, division human resource development or dhrd where he servesas a manager over the integrated food safety team of which i'm a member of. jim has spentmuch of his career working with federal, state, and local stakeholders improving the qualityof and access to training. keith johnson's a local member from the custer health departmentin north dakota where he serves as the department's health administrator. now, keith and his teamlearned of some fairly significant news a few months ago. after being at the same locationthe county courthouse for over 60 years, they were asked to relocate their offices to accommodatethe arrival of a new district judge, right? yes. now, that seemed like a daunting taskto find a new location in a short amount of

time, however as is the case much of the time,things turned out fine. they were able to find an even better location. i mention thisstory because taking on the development of national curriculum standard is by no meansa small feat and may seem like a daunting task, but i assure you that everything willbe okay and your input matters. in fact, it's essential and very much welcomed. a finalco-chair is alan bateson. alan is a federal member and social science analyst here atfdadhard. by trade he goes by different title and quite frankly one i'd never heard of before,psychometrician io psychologist. when i first heard that i thought this is certainly someonewho deals with electric shock therapy on a day-to-day basis [laughs]. unfortunately that'snot the case at all. he just tests people

and measures things. not as exciting as ionce thought, so we really don't talk much [laughs]. joking aside, alan has a very importantrole in our workgroup. he's a certification expert who among other things helps validatethe efficacy of testing in the workplace. we have all four of our co-chairs here today.gentlemen, can you raise your hands? it's keith and stan and jim and alan in the back[applause]. i encourage you all to take a moment, say hello and meet with our co-chairssometime this week. see if you can figure out who sings in a bluegrass band and seeif you can figure out who has a passion for visiting our national parks and probably haveseen more of them than many of us combined. see if you can figure out who is an avid cyclistwho's ridden their bike across the state of

iowa and see if you can figure out who wasa farmer before entering the regulatory profession. a challenge our workgroup faces, as do theother pfp workgroups, is that we're spread all over the country in different officesacross different time zones. in order to work towards completing our initiatives we holdquarterly meetings, if not more often with our members via conference call, through webinars,and when possible face-to-face meetings. since face-to-face meetings on a regular basis arenot possible, most of our meetings take place online using a web conference tool calledwebex. we utilize webex to share news, updates, and discuss opportunities for participationand we regularly post updates of those meetings and the minutes of those meetings to a sitecalled food shield. how many of you are familiar

with or use food shield? so quite a few ofyou. almost all of us. for those of you not familiar with food shield it's a web sitewhich got its start largely from laboratory community and their need for searchable web-baseddirectory of laboratories. through discussions with usda, fda, the association of publichealth laboratories, and america association of veterinary laboratory diagnosticians, foodshield was born. at first it acted largely like a directory. however, over the yearsit's grown to do much more and today there are over 200 workgroups that utilize foodshield to help share and review documents, present training, and keep members acrossall levels of government connected and informed. it's a comprehensive infrastructure supportingthe protection and defense of our nation's

food and agricultural resources and includesthe scientific and technological diversities of the laboratory community. by now you shouldhave received a food shield invitation. in fact, i sent you another reminder this morning[laughs] . if you have not already joined, i encourage you to do so. we'll use this siteto stay connected and informed following our meeting this week. now, the training and certificationworkgroup, as pat and barbara mentioned, receives their charges from the pfp strategic plan,which was released in november of 2014. the plan outlines objectives for each of the workgroupsbeginning in 2015 and culminating in 2020. the plan identifies two major objectives forthe training and certification workgroup with the first being to recruit a diverse groupof subject matter experts or smes to provide

input on the development of a national curriculumstandard for training. the second objective is to present a training summit where stakeholderscan meet to share the vision for developing a national curriculum standard for trainingintegrated food safety system regulators using best practices and learning to discuss developmentof curriculum and find opportunities to continuously improve the quality of and access to our training.at our training summit today there are 74 of you representing various federal, state,and local departments offices and agencies, collective agreement grants, regulatory associations,institutions, and alliances. in fact, we have rita johnson here today representing the seafood alliance. rita also happens to be my former boss at the florida department of agricultureand consumer service [laughs] and the person

who sent me to that conducting acidified foodcourse i told you about earlier. rita, welcome and thank you for welcoming to the floridafamily and giving me a shot all those years ago. we also have with us some internationalpartners. where are our colleagues from mexico? they are in the back there. [foreign language][laughs]. thank you. and where our colleagues from canada? in the middle there. [foreignlanguage] [laughs]. and to all of you welcome to our training summit. now, let's take acloser look at the work group's first objective, national curriculum standard development.if you ask yourself what does that mean, then you're probably not alone and it's a goodquestion. when i look at this title two words stick out for me, "curriculum" and "standard."on their own these are fairly common terms,

but it's a good idea that we take a closerlook at these. a curriculum is simply defined as the aggregate of courses. in college youmay recall that you had to have a certain number of 100, 200, 300, or 400 level coursesor hours for your major. this essentially was your curriculum. now standard is generallydefined as something considered by most as the basis of comparison. so putting this alltogether, what do we mean in the context of training? we define national curriculum standardas a set of competencies essential for us food and feed protection professionals acrossall jurisdictions to perform comparable regulatory activities within the integrated food safetysystem. within this definition there's another important term "competency," which is themeasurable and observable knowledge, skill,

ability, or behavior needed to do or performthe duties of the job. by creating a national curriculum standard we're taking a big steptowards creating a competent workforce doing comparable work. if you do a search of nationalcurriculum standards, several results will populate. they're standards for social studies,math, science and so on. here we're talking about creating a curriculum standard basedoff competencies needed by food and feed regulatory professionals. when speaking about curriculumstandards one must also consider standards for training, as they very much go hand-in-hand.after all, what good is curriculum if you don't have an effective method of deliveryand what good is training without having sound content to deliver? a search of national trainingstandards again, yields many results. there

is standards for teaching assistants, firefighters,canada, and so on. in our context when we're speaking about training standards, we're reallytalking about the quality of our instructors and our delivery methods. instructor skillstraining or instructor development workshops are a step towards establishing national trainingstandards. there are several steps when working towards developing a national curriculum standardwith the first being to define the curriculum. for us this came out of a building processthat has its roots in the old ora schoolhouse you can see here, and also mel showed youbefore. it was originally defined by the worker smes from the office of regulatory affairsand the office of resource management who developed a set of competencies that werelater built upon through a broader set of

smes, including those from the training andcertification workgroup. later we partnered with international food protection traininginstitute arrive pti to further refine the process and products. tools such as needsassessments, job analyses, job task analyses and jtas are used to define what competenciesare needed for the development of the curriculum. now that we defined the curriculum the nextstep is to build the curriculum. the workgroup is actively working on these first two steps.as we build and validate competencies we can begin to develop training content towardsthose competencies, which will collectively become the curriculum. we can utilize toolssuch as gap analysis to measure whether existing training satisfactorily addresses the requiredcompetencies. content that does not meet the

requirements is revised so it does, and contentthat does can go directly into the curriculum. the next step is to implement the curriculum.you can look at this step as a prepackaged needs analysis. smes have already identifiedand validated the expected content and proficiency needed. their design documents and style guidesthat been created from this that provide a development training pathway. at this pointit's a matter of putting the work to practice by all of us. the final step in [inaudiblespeaker] and the process is to evaluate the curriculum. this step has a continuing presenceand improvement of their curriculum. by evaluating the effectiveness of the curriculum we canidentify ways to further improve upon it. now, none of these steps are achievable unlesswe work together. the partnership for food

protections training certification workgroupipti, fta and other federal, state and local partners are working together to make a nationalcurriculum standard for training our integrated food safety system regulators a reality. sowhere are we today and what does this work look like? well, it looks a lot like this.this is the main curriculum framework. feel free to grab it out of your folders, you havea copy. it has a lot going on and it's taken the work of many people over the course ofmany months to create. our next speaker is jerry witola [phonic] and dr. craig kamel[phonic] will give you much more information on the national curriculum standard history,process, and mainframe. but essentially what you're seeing are content domains representingcompetencies spanning four career levels,

entry, advanced, technical, and leadership.it's from this framework that the national curriculum is being developed. now this concludesmy presentation today. i hope you have a better understanding of the pfp training certificationworkgroup. who we are and what we've been up to. i'm happy to answer any questions youmay have in regards to the group now. thank you. [applause]. i've got a question in theback. yes sir. well, as the training certification workgroupmembers participated in a curriculum to develop a process, did you notice that they were jealousabout the process being successful? that's a good question and one at all thati wasn't expecting at all coming from my boss [laughs]. you know, it's a fair question andto be honest, yes, there were doubts. and

the doubts largely revolve around the processand not being familiar with the process. this has been a new, somewhat new avenue of learningfor many of us. and going through the process with ipti has been eye-opening for many ofus and as we understand more about the process, we become more comfortable with it. so thedoubts kind of faded away over time. so at first, yes, but as we progressed and beganto build and just using the number, the diversity of our stakeholders, getting input from everyoneit's helped, you know, build a solid product where there is less doubts about it. and we'restill in the building process of it, so there's always room for input and we welcome that.so, you know, if we can do it better we want to hear it. yes sir.

i would add to it as far as having been there,not from the very beginning, but close to it. but all of the people that were thereare representing the different constituencies that the trust level [inaudible speaker] overthe time period contributed immensely. and the biggest example would be the [inaudiblespeaker] people and the [inaudible speaker]. so when were able to bring those two groupstogether and have everything [inaudible speaker] everybody seemed much more able to acceptthis was really going to work. yes, very true. and thank you for not askingme to speak in french [laughs]. any other questions? just one more, will.

yes, ma'am. this is a gorgeous [inaudible speaker] ofwhat we have, but [inaudible speaker] first or second time, how do you recommend you digestthis thing to get the most out of it? what is the best approach? right. well, it's very much built and it startsat the bottom and our next speakers will really give you more information on that, so i don'twant to steal the thunder. but it starts at the bottom with 25 general education competencyor domains, which include competencies for that subject matter. and from that it buildsup, so there are four levels, the entry, advanced, technical, and leader. and as you work upthe content domains kind of there are fewer

of them. so the general knowledge is acrossthe bottom and as you master that you work yourself up. and it's based on, you know yourdesire. if you don't want to be a leader, you may stay at a certain level, and that'stotally fine. that's, you know, what people want to do and that's entirely okay. but itbuilds up and if you start at the bottom and as you mastered those courses or domains,you can see if the next step is right for you and then you work your way up from there.any other questions? we'll get a lot more on that following this presentation, so staytuned. everything you want to know about the main curriculum framework is coming up. allright. if there are no other questions, thank you so much. [applause].

thank you all.

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