One in six people in the U.S. fall ill from foodborne illness every year. Roughly 3,000 Americans die from foodborne illness annually. In 2011, the Food Safety Modernization Act (FSMA) was signed into ...

The International Food Protection Training Institute (IFPTI) announced today that the Fiscal Year 2010 Appropriations bill passed by the U.S. Senate and House of Representatives provides $1 million ...

With FDA’s publication of the final Produce Safety Rule and the Preventive Controls for Human Food Rule under the Food Safety Modernization Act, United Fresh is launching a new, multi-faceted training ...

2 million children die from diarrhea because of microbiologically contaminated food and water. 76 million illnesses, 325,000 hospitalizations and 5,000 deaths annually are caused by food pathogens in ...

BATTLE CREEK, Mich. & BATON ROUGE, La.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--The International Food Protection Training Institute (IFPTI) and the National Center for Biomedical Research and Training at Louisiana State ...

Food-safety and sanitation training for restaurant kitchen workers requires a holistic approach that treats food safety as an integral aspect of the company’s culture. This should be demonstrated ...

StateFoodSafety has launched a free online training course to instruct charitable feeding and disaster relief volunteers in vital food safety principles. After a year of development, the 22-minute ...

A new law in California now requires restaurants to compensate employees for state-mandated food handler certifications. But the law has been weaponized by advocacy groups looking to push their own ...

A new training program developed by the International Refrigerated Transportation Association (IRTA), a partner of the Global Cold Chain Alliance (GCCA), will help drivers of temperature-controlled ...

LAKELAND, Fla. — For retailers, food safety is often a matter of training workers how to handle and store food properly. And few retailers do that as rigorously and comprehensively as Publix Super ...

Public Health Activity-Italy recently hosted a Joint Food Protection Training Summit for Army and Air Force food inspection specialist and public health inspectors in Vicenza, Italy. The training, ...