CFSEC 2019

Consumer Food Safety Education Conference

Conference Program

Conference Program

Welcome to the Conference Program page for From Consumers to Chefs: Food Safety Education Matters. This page will be updated as program sessions and speakers are confirmed. Register for the conference now! You can download a PDF of the schedule here.

March 6, 2019

March 7, 2019

8:30     Welcome & Opening Keynote

Keynote:  announcement forthcoming

9:30    Plenary Session

Federal Agency Research Share — What’s New & What’s Coming Up?

Our Federal agency partners from the USDA, FDA and the CDC will share recent research related to foodborne illness, consumer food handling behaviors and risky foods.

Speakers:

  • Carmen Rottenberg, Acting Deputy Under Secretary, USDA Office of Food Safety
  • Paul Kiecker, Acting Administrator FSIS, USDA Office of Food Safety
  • Susan T. Mayne, Director, Center for Food Safety and Applied Nutrition, FDA
  • Robert Tauxe, Director, Division of Foodborne, Waterborne, and Environmental Diseases, CDC

11:00     Concurrent Breakout Sessions

  • Program Tools: Refresh Your Outreach Toolbox
    • Food Safety Outreach for Farmers’ Market Consumers: Utilization of Both “Old-Fashioned” & Social Media Approaches
    • Sharpening Your Farmers’ Market Food Safety Knowledge: Visual Tools & Social Media
  • Safe Food Handling in Today’s Landscape
    • Home Food Preservation: What’s Old is New Again!
    • Cooking Up Cottage Food Safely
    • A Mixed-Methods Assessment of Consumers’ Risky Food Safety & Beef Safety Behaviors
  • Know the Data: Modifying Approaches to Increase Consumer Engagement
    • Barriers & Motivators to Thermometer Use Among Food Workers & Consumers
    • Framing Messages to Motivate Consumers: Example for Thermometer Use
    • Evaluating the Efficacy of a U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Educational Video on Consumer Thermometer Usage
  • Show It!
    • Produce Safety Teaching Demonstrations
    • Spreading of Norovirus: When You Least Expect It — A Hands-on Demonstration
    • Food Safety Word Splat

12:15     Lunch Keynote: Ellie Krieger, RD

1:30     Concurrent Breakout Sessions

  • Program Tools: Refresh Your Outreach Toolbox
    • Create Diversity in Community Food Safety Education: Practices in Kansas
    • FDA Food Safety Tools for Consumer Education
    • Multi-Channel Communication Between Food Safety Specialist & Field Educators — Build the Toolbox
  • Safe Food Handling in Today’s Landscape
    • Safe Food Handling Training for Restaurant Employees: Does Phrasing Make a Difference?
    • Sports Arena Volunteer Food Handlers: A Risky Business
    • Through a Shopper’s Eyes: Understanding and Impacting Consumer Retail Food Safety Perceptions
  • Know the Data: Modifying Approaches to Increase Consumer Engagement
    • The Story of Your Dinner: What’s Been Learned in Two Years of Consumer & Health Educator Engagement
    • Consumer Knowledge, Perceptions & Purchasing Behaviors Associated with Food Processing Technologies in the United States
    • Using Data to Increase Usability of CDC’s Food Safety Website
  • Show It!
    • High Speed Hand Washing Helps Build Healthy Habits
    • Engaging Baking Food Safety Education
    • Tick Tock Tom

3:15     Plenary: At-Risk People — Action Plan to Engage Vulnerable Populations

At-Risk People — Action Plan to Engage Vulnerable Populations

We’ll help our audience go deeper in developing awareness of the needs and motivations of special vulnerable populations, including people with underlying chronic conditions such as diabetes.

Speakers:

  • Sacha Uelmen, RDN CDE, Director of Nutrition, American Diabetes Association
  • Colleen Doyle, MS RD, Managing Director of Nutrition & Physical Activity, American Cancer Society
  • Uche Akobundu, PhD, RD, Senior Director of Nutrition Strategy, Meals on Wheels America

4:30    Reception

6:00     Dinner Groups or Dinner on Your Own

March 8, 2019

8:30     Plenary: Illness Reporting — Is Increased Outreach Critical?

Illness Reporting: Is Increased Outreach Critical?

To better improve foodborne illness surveillance, state and local health agencies are implementing innovative outreach programs for consumers that include centralized illness reporting systems. We’ll talk about how the value of these systems in reducing the number of foodborne illnesses that go unreported.

Speakers:

  • Marijke Decuir, Minnesota Department of Health 

  • Jamie DeMent, Florida Department of Health

  • Steven Mandernach, AFDO Executive Director 

  • Invited:  Harvard School of Public Health   

Moderator:

  • James Corby, PFSE Board Member

9:45     Concurrent Breakout Sessions

  • Program Tools: Refresh Your Outreach Toolbox
    • Assessment of Web-Based Game “Potluck Panic!” for Food Safety Awareness
    • Development of a Virtual Reality Training Platform for Food Safety Education
    • Reaching New Audiences Though Digital Media and Games
  • Safe Food Handling in Today’s Landscape
    • Keeping Your Meal Kit Safe in 3 Easy Steps
    • Integration of Food Safety in Environmental Sciences
    • Strategies to Reach Television Chefs with Safe Handling Information
  • Know the Data: Modifying Approaches to Increase Consumer Engagement
    • Improving Healthy Hand Hygiene Behaviors at Fairs: Food Safety Education That Works
    • Investigating Cross-Contamination from Raw to Ready-to-Eat Foods During Consumer Meal Preparation
    • Investigating Handwashing Practices of Consumers During Meal Preparation: An Observational Approach

11:15     Concurrent Breakout Sessions

  • Program Tools: Refresh Your Outreach Toolbox
    • Making Real Change by Learning From Game Developers: The Transformational Design Model
    • Online Food Safety & Preservation Education Meets Society’s Demand
  • Safe Food Handling in Today’s Landscape
    • Identification of Older Adult Life-Cycle Factors that Impact Food Safety Perceptions & Practices
    • Hispanic Audiences: How To Use Communications Resources To Convey Food Safety Education Messages for Spanish Speakers.
    • Safe Food = Healthy Kids
  • Know the Data: Modifying Approaches to Increase Consumer Engagement
    • Development & Evaluation of the Science-Based “Don’t Wing It!” Safe Poultry Handling Campaign
    • State Food Safety Agencies’ Use of Social Media
  • Know the Data: Modifying Approaches to Increase Consumer Engagement
    • Farm to Fork: Reducing the Risk of Microbial Contamination through Farmers’ Market Layouts
    • Consumer Awareness & Attitudes Towards Mechanically Tenderized Beef: An Exploratory Mixed-Methods Design
    • Investigating Cross-Contamination to Fomite Surfaces in Consumer Kitchens

1:00     Lunch Plenary: Quick Talks — Three Challenging Topics in Consumer Food Safety Education

Quick Talks: Three Challenging Topics in Consumer Food Safety Education

Three experts take the stage for five minute talks on three challenging topics for food safety educators. Audience members will have the opportunity to engage the quick-talkers with potential solutions and further challenges.

Speakers:

  • Marisa Bunning, Colorado State University
  • Don Schaffner, Rutgers University
  • Michael Roberson, Publix Supermarkets

2:00      Keynote – announcement forthcoming

3:00     Conference Closing