Safety management and pathogen monitoring in poultry slaughterhouse operations: the case of the United States

2016 ◽  
pp. 109-139
Author(s):  
Manpreet Singh ◽  
◽  
Estefanía Novoa Rama ◽  
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Safety Management ◽  
The United States

Assessing Employee Health Policies for Reporting and Excluding Ill Food Employees in Restaurants within the United States

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Girvin Liggans ◽  
Marc S. Boyer ◽  
Veronica S. Moore ◽  
Laurie B. Williams
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Food Safety ◽  
Fast Food ◽  
Safety Management ◽  
The United States ◽  
Employee Health ◽  
Health Policies ◽  
Food Contact Surfaces ◽  
Multiple Unit ◽  
Retail Food

Preventing ill food employees from spreading pathogens to food and food contact surfaces remain an important objective of retail food safety policy in the United States. Since 2005, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has recommended food establishments implement employee health policies that include requirements for the exclusion or restriction of ill food employees and reporting, to the person in charge, symptoms or diagnosis of certain diseases transmitted by food. The incorporation of this recommendation, however, has not been widely studied. The purpose of this exploratory study was to assess the presence and prevalence of employee health policies at fast food and full-service restaurants in the United States. More than 50% of fast food and full-service restaurants were found to have non-existent employee health policies for each of the five recommended components specified in the FDA Food Code. Results showed 17.41% of fast food and 12.88% of full-service restaurants had all five recommended components. Moreover, most restaurants with all five recommended employee health policy components were part of a multiple-unit operation and found to have more developed food safety management systems than restaurants with none of the recommended components. Further attention and research into the impediments associated with developing and implementing employee health policies in restaurants is warranted.

Improving Seafood Safety Management after an Oil Spill

2003 ◽  
Vol 2003 (1) ◽  
pp. 1303-1310 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ruth A. Yender
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Oil Spill ◽  
Oil Spills ◽  
Safety Management ◽  
Significant Risk ◽  
The United States ◽  
Recent Experience ◽  
Seafood Safety ◽  
Polycyclic Aromatic ◽  
State And Local

ABSTRACT Recent experience indicates that promptly providing state and local seafood safety managers with key information and assistance during an oil spill response can help prevent unnecessary restrictions on seafood harvest. Efforts by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's (NOAA) Office of Response and Restoration (ORR) to help facilitate and expedite the decision-making process of seafood safety managers after an oil spill include two recently published guidebooks on seafood testing and risk assessment. Of particular interest is a comparison of polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbon (PAH) criteria established for seafood at past United States oil spills. Depending on assumptions made in the health risk calculations, criteria for shellfish ranged from 5 to 120 parts per billion (ppb) benzo[a]pyrene equivalents. Nearly all seafood samples analyzed at these spills passed established criteria, indicating oil spills in the United States have not posed significant risk to human health through consumption of PAH-contaminated seafood. Seafood marketability has more often been impacted, due to petroleum taint (off-odor or off-flavor). Evaluation of seafood marketability can be facilitated through employment of standardized sensory testing protocols for detecting petroleum taint, such as those recently published by NOAA.

scholarly journals 2025

2016 ◽  
pp. 1663-1670
Author(s):  
Stacie L. Fain
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Literature Review ◽  
Homeland Security ◽  
Safety Management ◽  
Federal Aviation Administration ◽  
Air Transportation ◽  
The United States ◽  
Safety Management Systems ◽  
Airport Management ◽  
New Approach

Several governmental entities: the Secretary of Transportation; the Departments of Defense, Homeland Security, and Commerce; the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA); National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA); and industry, aligned their resources to develop the Next Generation Air Transportation System (NextGen), a new approach to safety at airports in the United States (U.S.). NextGen places the responsibility for safety within airport management and changing the FAA's role from testing, inspecting, and certifying to approval and periodic audits of the Safety Management Systems (SMS) programs at U.S. airports. The purpose of the research was to determine, through a comprehensive literature review and evaluation, whether SMS will be used as the framework for U.S. airports to move safely into the year 2025. The researcher concluded that the vision for SMS implementation was well defined and the requirements fairly clear, but guidance and support for SMS implementation at U.S. airports are lacking.

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