Food Factor Resources

Possible Careers in Food Safety
Taken from the USDA website (usda.gov)
Food Safety and Inspection Services careers

• Chemist
• Compliance Officer
• Consumer Safety Inspector
• Food Inspector
• Food QA Specialist
• Food Safety Auditor
• Food Safety Specialist
• Food Science Process Control Tech
• Food Scientist
• Food Technologist
• Frontline Supervisor
• Manager of Food Safety and Quality
• Microbiologist
• Product Development/Food Tech
• Quality Assurance Manager

Food Safety Hotlines - USDA
(301) 344-4778

Meat & Poultry Hotline
1-888-MPHotline
1-888-674-6854

• 3M Food Safety site - Solutions from 3M are helping food industry professionals succeed in achieving the highest food safety standards possible.
• Report: Food Safety: Safe to Move - food safety risks are rising and it's time for action
• Report: Food Safety Survey Results
• 3M Food Safety YouTube channel - 5 awesome videos on food safety around the globe.
  
  
• National Center for Food Protection and Defense (Podcasts and Blogs) - Food Factor education page. NCFPD is pleased to supply educational materials for the FIRST LEGO League 2011 Food Factor Challenge. NCFPD will also offer a Food Protection Award to a team whose invention helps to protect the food system from intentional or catastrophic contamination.  Please see the Global Innovation Award website for more information on the award.
  
  
• NASA’s “Food for Thought” web site includes educational activities designed to get students engaged in learning about space food, food safety, nutrition and human spaceflight. It contains videos and links for further exploration, and a fact-filled "Space Food Hall of Fame" where visitors can read about some of the most famous and noteworthy space foods, and even vote for their favorites.
  
  
• The Partnership for Food Safety Education is the creator and steward of consumer food safety educational materials - find information about safe food handling in the home.
  
  
• Contact food safety experts! Experts from the American Culinary Federation are waiting to hear from FLL teams. Contact them today!
  
  
• Food Quality - Farm to fork food safety
  
  
• iPura - making sustainable food cleaner and safer by targeting foodborne pathogens and other contaminants that are known to cause human suffering
  
  
• Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO): Emergency Prevention System for Food Safety Strategic Plan
  
  
• Mythbusters: Learn the Truth about Food Safety in Your Home
  
  
• National Food Safety Education Month
  
  
• Food Safety News - Breaking news for everyone's consumption
  
  
• Fight Bac! - Keep food safe from bacteria

• Science and Our Food Supply - Food safety curriculm for middle and high schools