The Association of Food and Drug Official’s (AFDO) Video Podcasts

Update on the Era of Smarter Food Safety Efforts with Frank Yiannas

During the Foodborne Illness Reduction through Healthy People 2030 Summit, Frank Yiannas, Deputy Commissioner for Food Policy and Response with the FDA shared current foodborne illness intervention strategies as well as progress on the Era of Smarter Food Safety that Yiannas rolled out as an initiative in 2019.
 
We sat down with the Deputy Commissioner Yiannas for an update on the Era of Smarter Food Safety as well as the romaine recall.

Food Safety for Large Scale Events

Whether you have struck gold with a Super Bowl ticket or are attending your local concert with a few thousands of your friends, large scale events can be successfully managed for food safety.  Check out this article in the January 2020 issue of Food Safety Magazine that features the behind-the-scene planning that goes nto the large events. https://www.foodsafetymagazine.com/magazine-archive1/december-2019january-2020/ensuring-food-safety-at-large-scale-events/

This podcast is with with one of the panelists in this article, Venessa Sims, MEP, GA-CEM, director of emergency management, Georgia Department of Agriculture. Sims presented about the her team's work on SuperBowl Food Safety at the AFDO Conference in 2019.  Georgia has practiced its response to large events to help keep the public safe. 
 
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The Key to Working with Legislators is Attention!

Legislators both national and state are packing up their bags and heading home. A new session of most starts in January. In this AFDO podcast, we look at ways to make your work with legislators more effective in 2020. We sat down with Doug Farquhar, Program Director for Environmental Health for the National Conference of State Legislatures, as he shared tips for helping state representatives as knowledgeable as they can be when they address issues that impact AFDO members. 

As State Legislatures Wind Down Looking at the Year Preps for the Future

The pace of legislative activity involving all facets of food and device safety at the state level has increased. We sat down with Doug Farquhar, Program Director for Environmental Health for the National Conference of State Legislatures, and discussed what has happened in 2019 and what state regulators should be looking at for the future. 

How Yum! Brands Piloted Social Media Use to Aid with Illness Outbreak Prediction

Dan Tew, Sr. Manager Food Safety and Regulatory Affairs for the Yum! Brands, shares an exciting pilot Yum! Brands has used to help locations stay ahead of illness outbreaks that could impact employee attendance as well as the spread of the illnesses.

Using Data in Support of Improved Food Safety at Retail

Laura Brown, Safe Food Section Team Lead for the CDC, discusses how CDC data shows what the food safety issues have improved and what still needs to be done. Brown discusses how data can bring focus to outreach for the most impact. 

Hepatitis A: Update on Recent Outbreak Trends and Best Practices for Food Regulators and Retail Food Industry

 

This webinar was hosted by the Association of Food and Drug Officials (AFDO) on September 27, 2019.

Presenters include:

• Monique A. Foster, MD, MPH, Medical Epidemiologist, Division of Viral Hepatitis, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
• Lisa Hainstock, R.S. , Food Safety Specialist, Michigan Department of Agriculture & Rural Development

AFDO Training Programs Enhances Effectiveness and Accessibility

These are not your mother's training programs. Learning with AFDO is better than ever. AFDO's Randy Young shares how innovation continues to improve training that serves the more than 40,000 regulators nationwide. Randy is AFDO's Instructional Designer. He has be instrumental in continuing the improvements in ADFO's training partnerships. Randy share's what members should know about AFDO training and its future

It's Hurricane Season -- Lessons for Regulators No Matter Where They Live Part Two

In October, 2018, Hurricane Michael created more than the usual hurricane aftermath and food instability issues in Florida. At the 2019 AFDO annual conference, panelists looked at the human side of the devastation that resulted in a long-term recovery that continues today.

We sat down with Michael Roberson, Director of Corporate Quality Assurance with Publix Super Markets, to discuss the retail side of recovery months later.  He shares more about the human-side of this disaster as well as the lessons learned about relationships before you need them in the midst of a disaster in a podcast.

Hurricanes Have Lessons for Regulators No Matter Where They Live

Last October, Hurricane Michael created more than the usual hurricane aftermath and food instability issues in Florida. At this year's AFDO annual conference, panelists looked at the human side of the devastation that resulted in a long-term recovery that continues today.
We sat down with Tracy Johnstone, a Mcdonald's owner/operator who herself is on the road to recovery. She shares the human-side of this disaster in this podcast