AFDO ADDRESS

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AFDO ADDRESS

• CASA
• Holiday Inn
• Saratoga Springs, NY
• May 8, 2008
• Steve Steingart, President
• www.afdo.org
• afdo_at_afdo.org
• [phone]
• 2550 Kingston Road, York, PA 17402

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AFDO Vision
AFDO is an international leader and trusted
resource for building consensus and promoting
uniformity on public health and consumer
protection issues related to the regulation of
food, drugs, devices, cosmetics and consumer
products.
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2007-2008 Objectives

• Uniformity
• FoodSHIELD
• Virtual Access
• Working with the Affiliates
• Membership
• Identify React to Grant Opportunities
• Resource for Federal Legislators

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Uniformity Update
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Uniformity Update
HR4167/S3128 National Uniformity for Food

• As an association, we need to
• 1) stay in contact with our Congressional
  Members to continue conveying our concerns (sent
  letters)
• 2) stay focused and make personal contacts with
  a unified message
• 3) work within our organization to get consensus
  and an agreeable compromise with our Industry
  members.
• We do not expect a uniformity bill during this
  Congress.

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Grants/Cooperative Agreements
CSREES Grant with the National Center for Food
Protection and Defense and the University of
Minnesota
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Grants/Cooperative Agreements
FoodSHIELD

• FoodSHIELD is a secure, interactive, intuitive
  database of state resources including
• Expertise, capabilities and dynamics of food
  protection and defense programs
• Valuable information for state-to-state
  information exchange
• Contact information in various program areas that
  is accurate and current

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Grants/Cooperative Agreements
FoodSHIELD

• Communications at all levels
• Federal
• State
• Local
• Programs
• Personnel
• Emergency

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Recall Event- Castleberry
Future Development
Effectiveness Checks
Electronic Forms
Enter Audit Survey
Running Statistics
Work with Audit Data
View Scoreboards
Audit collection survey tool
Takes you to data queries
Download Audit forms
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Virtual Access
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Virtual Access

• Virtual Access is a newly designated online
  portal, comparable to AFDO membership, intended
  specifically to make educational materials and
  opportunities and other tools available to
  regulatory field-level personnel.

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Virtual Access

• Online Training
• Resources, News Information
• Video Conferencing
• Contact Management
• Polling
• Presentation Center
• Journals Publications
• Future Resources

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Working with the Affiliates
CASA
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Working with Affiliates

• Affiliate Representatives on AFDO Board key to
  a two-way flow of communication
• Quarterly conference calls with Affiliate
  Presidents to discuss mutual issues of concern
• Two Directors at Large to the AFDO Board of
  Directors, one on Executive Board
• AFDO President interact with Affiliates by
  attendance at meetings

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NCAFDO (Includes Manitoba Saskatchewan,Canada)
AFDO Regional Affiliates
MCAFDO
WAFDO (Includes Alberta British Columbia,
Canada Guam and Mexico)
MT
WA
ND
VT
MN
ME
WI
NY
SD
OR
ID
MI
WY
MA
IA
NE
PA
IN
IL
OH
NV
NH
UT
CO
WV
CT
KS
MO
KY
VA
RI
CA
DE
NC
OK
TN
AR
AZ
NM
SC
MD
MS
NJ
AL
GA
DC
TX
LA
FL
AK
HI
AFDOSS (Includes Puerto Rico)
CASA (Includes District of Columbia Eastern
Ontario, Canada)
NEFDOA (Includes Quebec Maritime Provinces,
Canada)
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Membership
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Membership
Membership provides you

• A voice on national regulatory issues
• Input into national policy
• Interaction with key government/industry
  officials
• Input into the development of model codes,
  guidelines, regulations and laws

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Membership/Committees
Consider Becoming a Committee Chair or Board
Member

• Advantages
• Connects you to Food Safety officials throughout
  the country
• Rewarding accomplishments

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Membership/Committees

• Additional advantages include
• Become a part of a committed team
• Form lifelong friendships
• Leadership potential

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AFDO Committees
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2006/2007 Committees

• Our committees are the backbone of AFDO. Members
  are invited to participate fully in research and
  deliberation of committee issues.

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2007/2008 Committees
Administration Doug Saunders, ChairJoe Corby,
Co-Chair Alumni Terry Macaig, ChairGeorge Fong,
Co-Chair Associate MembershipSarah Geisert,
ChairLarry Eils, Co-Chair AwardsJoanne Brown,
ChairDrugs, Devices CosmeticsThomas Brinck,
ChairDennis Baker, Co-Chair Education
TrainingPaul Raynes, ChairCharlene Bruce,
Co-Chair
FieldGerald Wojtala, ChairDavid Read,
Co-Chair FoodEllen Laymon, ChairByron
Beerbower, Co-Chair Food Protection
DefenseDarby Greco, ChairJoseph Reardon,
Co-Chair International Government
RelationsRobert Scales, Chair Laboratory,
Science TechnologyYvonne Salfinger,
ChairWilliam Krueger, Co-Chair Laws
RegulationsTerri Wenger, ChairCameron Smoak,
Co-Chair
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2006/2007 Committees
Meat Poultry John Arnold, ChairRalph Stafko,
Co-Chair Media Public Affairs Alexis Tervo,
ChairJoAnn Pittman, Co-Chair MembershipBarbara
Cassens, ChairAlan Taylor, Co-Chair Nominations
ElectionsCharlene Bruce, ChairResolutionsDan
Sowards, Chair
Retail FoodStephen Perrine, ChairRon Klein,
Co-Chair SeafoodGary Wolf, ChairRita Johnson,
Co-Chair
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AFDO members continue to be involved Food
Agricultural Sector Government Coordinating
Council (FASGCC) since 2004 working with DHS,
AFDO joins 12 reps from federal, state, local
government. Council of Presidents of State
Associations developed from FDAs Food Security
Surveillance Assignments. The goal is to
integrate food safety and defense. Safety of
Fresh Produce Working Group Developed based on
a request from the tomato industry. The goal is
to provide mandatory regulation in the absence
of federal rules. AFDO is to provide model code
for all produce industry. This is a work in
progress. ORA Revitalization and other
participation
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Grants/Cooperative Agreements
Successful grants/ cooperative agreements

• 1) Tracking the Food Code a contract with FDA to
  track the adoption of the Food Code.

Status of Food Code adoptions can be found at
FDA/CFSAN website Many states have adopted the
Food Code.
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Grants/Cooperative Agreements
2) CDC States Helping States

• Cooperative Agreement with CDC to
• strengthen state and local food safety programs.
  Based on this agreement, the Food Emergency
  Pocket Guide was developed. This is a
  comprehensive durable field manual for use by
  field staff in emergencies.

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Grants/Cooperative Agreements
3) Control of Listeria monocytogenes (Lm) at
Retail

• Funded through a cooperative agreement with
  USDA. Objectives include
• The development of a model response strategy to
  employ when encountering positive samples of Lm
  in retail environments
• Development of educational materials in both
  English and Spanish available on the AFDO website
  (DVD and booklet also available now)

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Grants/Cooperative Agreements
4) Meat and Poultry On-Line Training

• Cooperative agreement with USDA through
• Utah State University to put AFDOs existing Meat
  and Poultry Processing at Retail guidelines into
  an online format.
• Free for regulators industry
• Approved for CEUs

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Grants/Cooperative Agreements
5) Application of Basics of Inspection and
Investigation Training Course

• Provides follow-up hands-on training to ORA U
  Level 1
• Several trainer courses were held
• Several student courses have been held to date
  (TX, MS, NC)
• Instructor contacts are available on the website
• CEUs are available
• Each affiliate has a course in a box
• Letter from Education Training Committee to all
  Program Directors and State Training Officers to
  take advantage of this course

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Grants/Cooperative Agreements
1) Analyzing the flow of food safety funding to
determine how federal, state, and local funding
is allocated utilized
(RWJ/ George Washington University)
Based on need for policy makers to Track how and
where dollars are spent
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Grants/Cooperative Agreements
Enhancing the roles of state and local
government in an integrated, prevention-oriented
food safety system (RWJ Foundation/George
Washington Univ) Based on increased concerns
about fresh produce safety and imported food
ingredients Goal To strengthen FDAs ability to
provide leadership in an integrated
prevention-oriented food safety program and to
identify changes in policy to enhance
effectiveness at all levels
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Grants/Cooperative Agreements
Recently awarded
Retail Food Safety Consortium
(USDA/CSREES Grant/ Utah State University)
NEHA,NACCHO, and AFDO will host meetings in
conjunction with their annual meetings Goal To
increase collaboration across boundaries
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AFD0 Publications
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Publications

• Pocket Guide to Can Defects
• Apple Cider Processing Operations Requirements
  Guidelines
• Cured, Salted, Smoked Fish
• Food Code Pocket Guide
• Food Emergency Pocket Guide
• Guidelines for Exempt Slaughter and Processing
  Operations and Training Manual

• Guidelines for GMPs for Packaged Ice
• Transportation of Food Products
• Model Salvage Code
• Water Vending Machine
• Retail Meat and Poultry Processing
• Retail Guidelines for Refrigerated Foods in
  Reduced Oxygen Packages
• Voluntary Transportation Guidelines

For complete listing order form, go
to www.AFDO.org or call 717-757-2888
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AFDO also provides
Official CommentsandPosition Statements
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Official Comments

• FDA
• Provided proposal to amend their regulations and
  prohibit the use of certain cattle origin
  materials in the food or feed of all animals.
• Conventional Foods Marketed as Functional Foods
• Draft Manufactured Food Regulatory Program
  Standards
• Draft Animal Cloning Risk Assessment Proposed
  risk management plan and draft guidelines for
  industry
• FDA Food Protection Plan

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Official Comments
USDA

• USDA/FSIS Product labeling, definition of the
  term natural
• USDA/FSIS Product Consignees During Meat or
  Poultry Product Recalls
• USDA/FSIS The use of Non-Amenable Animal Tissue
  in Inspected Products
• USDA/AMS and FDA/CFSAN Agricultural GAPs

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Position Statements

• AFDOs Position Statement on Smoke Free Food
  Establishments

• AFDO supports no smoking in all regulated food
  facilities regardless of size or location
• Employee smoking in food establishments or
  returning to food-handling activities after
  smoking may result in the contamination of
  exposed food clean equipment, utensils, and
  linens or other items needing protection. The
  Federal model Food Code, adopted by most states,
  prohibits smoking by employees in food
  preparation areas because of the potential that
  hands, food, and food-contact surfaces may become
  contaminated.

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Position Statements

• AFDOs Position Statement on Raw Milk

• Issued as a result of an AFDO Resolution to
  raise awareness of state food program officials
  of the growing movement and related public health
  concerns of Raw Milk Sales and to present
  information and position statements to state
  legislative officials, state and Federal
  policy-makers regarding concerns over the sale of
  raw milk and raw milk products.

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Position Statements
President Bushs Executive Order establishing an
inter-agency working group on import safety

• States looked upon as partners in food safety
• Leveraging state and local resources
• States hold many federal contracts to conduct
  field examination, sample collection, and sample
  analysis (NY model).
• States and Locals are usually first recipients of
  complaints and reports of illnesses
• Funding is an issue
• Public meeting on October 1, 2007 in Washington,
  DC

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Letters of Invitation
AFDO sent letters to Congresswoman DeLauro (CT)
and Senator Durbin (IL) requesting face-to-face
meeting regarding the single food safety agency
issue

• In Oct. 2007, AFDO met with Congresswoman Rosa
  DeLauro, Senator Richard Burr, and Senator
  Richard Durbins policy advisor

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www.afdo.org
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www.afdo.org
AFDOs website will tell you about

• Current legislation of interest
• AFDO position statements
• AFDO resolutions
• Committee charges/recent activities
• Contact Information for all AFDO members
• Final committee reports
• Annual conference presentations
• Information on upcoming training
• Information on Seafood HACCP training
• And much more!

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2008 AFDO Annual Conference
June 7-11, 2008Crowne Plaza Anaheim Resort
HotelAnaheim, CA
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