| Partnership for Food Safety Education

Kansas State University’s Fight BAC Class

March 26, 2015

Stephanie Castillo Teaches First and Second Grade Students the Core 4

Stephanie Castillo with Kansas State University taught food safety to first and second grade after school students this autumn. Her “Fight BAC Class” teaches food safety basics, such as hand-washing practices, to after school program kids. First, she begins her lesson with an illustration of the fast growth rate of illness-causing bacteria with a marble multiplication experiment . After a short break for “germ tag” and a healthy snack, Stephanie and the students talked about the importance of hand washing; hands should be washed with warm water and soap for twenty seconds every time before you eat and every time after you use the bathroom. The kids concluded that it is better to wash with warm water and soap but to use hand sanitizer when water and soap is not available. They were sent home with a food safety quiz to do alongside their parents.

Fairchild Airmen Fight BAC! ®

March 26, 2015

Lead by BAC! Fighter Darla Klausner, the airmen of Fairchild Air Force Base (AFB) answered the call – the call to Fight BAC!® In April, through collaboration with the 92nd Public Health Flight and the Defense Commissary Agency, Darla executed a Fight BAC!® Food Safety Awareness Campaign at the Fairchild AFB Commissary. Their mission: to provide Fairchild residents with information on how to properly clean, separate, cook, and chill food to prevent foodborne illness.

Over a busy couple of days, Darla and her team of airmen from the 92nd Public Health Flight distributed Fight BAC!® fliers, magnets, and stickers to commissary patrons. By the campaign’s end, they had reached over 300 people, stressing the importance of food safe practices. Mission accomplished!

Interacting face to face with consumers is a powerful way to drive food safety messages home – we salute Darla and the airmen at Fairchild for their work in spreading food safe messages! Together, we can achieve a food safe America.

Mixing it up with Fight BAC!®

February 26, 2015

With over 20 years in public schools teaching food safety, Melissa Blaine still finds ways to get creative with Fight BAC!®. Melissa is a Family and Consumer Sciences teacher at Grant Middle School in New Mexico. Melissa has been using Fight BAC!® for years in her classrooms and she says her 6th graders love it! But she stays creative and mixes things up by adapting the Fight BAC!® handouts to challenge her kids in new ways on the four core messages: Clean, Separate, Cook, and Chill. Melissa says that the “6th graders are enthusiastic learners and want to be in the kitchen and cook, not just to eat, but to become more independent. They can use these skills in class, at home and in the future in food service jobs”.

Thank you Melissa for the 20 years you have spent Fighting BAC!®

BAC Fighters without Borders

February 26, 2015

The 4 Golden Rules of Food Safety hold true no matter the location

BAC Fighter Stuart Baker, originally from London, has been working to bring the “Four Golden Rules of Food Safety” to the people of Thailand. For the past four years, Stuart has been training food handlers in Thailand’s hospitality industry about the importance of Clean, Separate, Cook and Chill with a popular interactive food safety workshop. When he’s not educating people in person, Stuart maintains a popular Facebook page where Thai chefs, hotels, and other businesses can find and download information to post on their notice boards or pass out as handouts.

Through his work with his company, Food Hygiene Asia, Stuart has reached no fewer than 2,000 Thai hospitality industry workers. That’s great progress in spreading the word on critical food safety practices in just four years. Thank you Stuart for the work you do to Fight BAC! – in Thailand!

Food Safety Gets Poetic

February 26, 2015

New York Students capture essence of 4 core food safety practices with haiku

BAC Fighter Tara Mateo looked beyond the typical learning tools of worksheets and quizzes for a way to teach food safety – poetry!

After learning all about the four core messages, Tara’s students weren’t given an everyday quiz. Instead, they were instructed to write haikus. Short, simple, and reflective, these poems are the perfect way to convey food safety steps.

Learning didn’t stop in the classroom! Tara’s students hung their finished haikus around the rest of the school so that other students could learn about food safety too.

Thank you Tara and students for spreading these messages!