Here’s a video message from one of your fellow BAC Fighters:
Trasca Mason is an Environmental Health Specialist from McDonough, Georgia. She reaches about 6,700 people a year with food safety messages. Of those 6,700 people, 90% say they will provide more food safety training for children and parents. Trasca stays motivated because she knows her food safety education work saves lives. Excellent work, Trasca. Keep on Fighting BAC! ®
World food safety starts at the local level! Ines Beltran, a Family and Consumer Sciences Agent with the University of Georgia Extension Service, does her part for food safety by teaching people about the importance of hand washing.
Ines teaches residents of Gwinnett County, GA about the importance of hand washing by using the poster, Wash Your Paws, Georgia, created by Judy Harrison, UGA Extension Food Safety Specialist. Ines has distributed 420 posters in public libraries, schools, childcares, senior centers, parks and recreations facilities, and community organizations. She’s also delivered info about hand washing during food preparation to 106 parents and senior citizens.
Thank you, Ines for focusing on Georgia to achieve world health!
As a Kroger Food Safety Manager for the Atlanta Marketing area, as well as a Corporate Executive Chef, it is my duty to educate the consumer on food safety practices!
I have daily interaction with many customers throughout the Atlanta area. The most common need is basic food safety knowledge at home.
I have filmed segments targeting children in an effort to get them to share the knowledge with their parents and develop good food safe habits. These segments play on WSB-TV weekly. I have also recorded PSAs that play every 30 minutes in Kroger stores. These play throughout the county in an effort to show how much we at Kroger are focused on our customers as well as food safety!
Listen to the PSAs:
Chef John Szymanski, CP-FS, CEC, CCA, Food Safety Manager
For National Food Safety Education Month, the Partnership for Food Safety Education worked with contributing partner Kroger to create a week- by- week outreach plan. We thank every participating Kroger Co. store for joining us in this effort to connect with customers on food safety in September!
Kroger’s Atlanta Division added culinary flair to safe grilling information provided by the Partnership. They offered a double dose of fun to customers: delicious recipes and useful information on food thermometers!
They transformed PFSE’s food thermometer flyer into a recipe flyer, and printed the opposite side with a deliciously tempting recipe from Kroger Chef John Szymanski.
Atlanta’s food safety manager sent 200 flyers to each Atlanta Division store – 120,000 recipe flyers in total! Both customers and store managers loved them.
Thank you Atlanta Division Kroger Stores for reminding consumers that food thermometers are a vital ingredient when preparing food at home!