U'S Food Safety

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U.S Food Safety

• Team Approach

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Agencies Involved in Food Safety

• Center for Disease Control and Prevention
• U.S. Department of Agriculture
• Food and Drug Administration
• U.S Environmental Protection Agency
• National Oceanic and Atmospheric Admin
• Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms
• U.S. Dept of Justice
• Federal Trade Commission
• State a Local governments

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Center for Disease Control and Prevention

• All Foods
• Investigate food-borne illness outbreaks
• Food-illness laboratory
• Reporting System
• Public Health Policy
• Research
• Training of Food Safety Personnel

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Food and Drug Administration

• Monitors
• All foods which move by interstate commerce
• Except for meat and poultry and egg products
• Whole shelled eggs
• Bottled Water
• Wine with lt 7 alcohol
• Animal feeds fed to food-producing animals
• Safety of food and color additives

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Food and Drug Administration

• Enforces food safety laws
• Inspects food production establishments and
• Food storage facilities
• Recalls unsafe foods
• Conduct food safety research
• To establish food safety standards
• Education in safe food-handling practices
• Including food preparation standards

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Department of Agriculture

• Monitors
• Safety of meat and poultry and related products
• Domestic and Imported
• Safety of Egg products
• Domestic and imported

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Department of Agriculture

• Enforces food safety laws with regard to
• Animal health before slaughter
• Meat and poultry processing plants
• Processed eggs products
• Imported meat and poultry
• Must meet U.S. standard
• Meat and poultry storage
• Education in safe food-handling
• Research in meat and poultry safety
• Laboratory testing for contamination

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Environmental Protection Agency

• Monitors
• Drinking water
• Establishes and enforces
• Drinking water standards
• Enforces
• Toxic wastes disposal
• Pesticide residue standards
• Assists the state with all of these

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National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration

• Monitors
• Fish and seafood products
• Fee-for-Service
• Seafood Inspection Program
• Fishing vessels
• Seafood processing plants
• Retail distribution facilities

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Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms

• Monitors
• Alcoholic beverages with lt 7 alcohol
• Assists FDA
• Monitoring adulterated alcoholic products
• Enforces
• Laws governing production and distribution

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Department of Justice

• Monitors
• All Foods
• Prosecutes
• Companies and individual who violate food safety
  laws
• Seize U.S. Marshalls
• Unsafe food products not yet marketed