Education Conference Schedule continued
Motivating High School Students to Follow Safe Food Handling: An Effective Food Safety Curriculum
1:30pm–2:45pm Concurrent Track Sessions
Room: Lincoln 4
Speaker: B etty Yaohua Feng, Postdoc, Department of Food Science and Technology, University of California, Davis
Room: Lincoln 2
Speaker: C hristopher Bernstein, Director of Food Safety Education, USDA
This presentation focuses on factors that motivate high school students to change their food handling practices. Findings demonstrate that high school students need effective food safety education. The new food safety curriculum and its effect on reported behavior will be described.
Targeting At-Risk Populations Food Safety 101 for Older Adults
“Food Safety 101 for Older Adults” was designed by the USDA Food Safety and Inspection Service with the National Council on Aging to educate older adults and caregivers about the basics of food safety and to encourage them to follow the steps needed to prevent foodborne illness in their home.
Communications Tools to Share Your Mission Powerfully
Assessing personal attitudes and behaviors associated with listeriosis prevention during pregnancy
Room: Lincoln 2
Speakers: W enqing Xu, Assistant Professor, Nutrition and Food Sciences Melissa Cater, Assistant Professor, Agricultural and Extension Education & Evaluation, LSU AgCenter
11:00am–12:15pm
Special Breakout Session
Room: Lincoln 5 Speaker: L ori L. Jacobwith
Master storyteller and fundraising culture expert, Lori L. Jacobwith, will teach participants how to find the nuggets of powerful stories in their food safety education work. Plan to walk away with a first draft of a powerful, engaging story.
12:15pm–1:15pm
Lunch Keynote
Food Safety = Behavior 2.0
Room: Thurgood Marshall Ballroom Introduction: S helley Feist, Executive Director, Partnership for Food Safety Education Speaker: F rank Yiannas, Vice President for Food Safety, Walmart Stores, Inc.
The importance of organizational culture, behavioral science, and human behavior are well documented in the occupational safety and health fields. However, significant contributions to the scientific literature on these topics are noticeably absent in the field of food safety. In Food Safety = Behavior, Frank Yiannas explains proven behavioral science principles and offers perspectives on how to leverage them based on a career of experience in the field about how food safety behaviors can be changed.
It has been reported that pregnant women are about 10 times more likely than the general population to get Listeriosis. To reduce the risk of Listeriosis, pregnant women, as a high risk population, have to avoid certain high risk foods and follow food safety practice. The purpose of this study is to assess the awareness and food safety practices related with Listeriosis and ready-to-eat products consumption, among pregnant women in southeastern Louisiana Parishes in and around an urbanized area. Results showed the gap between self-reported awareness, food consumption behaviors, and food safety practices.
1:15pm–1:30pm Thurgood Marshall Ballroom Foyer
Break and Frank Yiannas book signing
ADVANCING FOOD SAFETY
THROUGH BEHAVIOR CHANGE
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