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5167.0: Wednesday, November 07, 2007: 2:30 PM-4:00 PM | ||||
Oral | ||||
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| The purpose of this session is to present current information about food safety practices of the American population, factors associated with the safety of food preparation practices, and characteristics of effective food safety education. Information will be presented about specific foods, including meat and chicken, fish, eggs, fresh produce, and infant formula. Information about produce includes both consumer and grower perspectives. | ||||
| Learning Objectives: 1. Describe the importance of food safety practices for pregnant women, infants, and home cooks. 2. Describe food safety practices of consumers who prepare meat, chicken, fish, eggs, and fresh produce and of mothers who prepare infant formula. 3. Recognize the association between safe food handling knowledge, perceptions, and practices. 4. Identify effective food safety education media and messages. 5. Identify risk factors of produce contamination in farms and packing sheds. | ||||
| Organizer(s): | Sara B. Fein, PhD | |||
| Moderator(s): | Sara B. Fein, PhD | |||
| 2:30 PM | Welcoming Remarks | |||
| 2:33 PM | Introductory Remarks | |||
| 2:38 PM | Educating home food preparers: Where has the message gotten through? An analysis of trends in at-home food handling and consumption practices in the United States Mario F. Teisl, Professor, Sara B. Fein, PhD, Alan S. Levy, PhD, Amy Lando, MPP | |||
| 2:51 PM |  | How do U.S. consumers handle precut bagged lettuce? Chung-Tung Jordan Lin, PhD, Linda A. Verrill, PhD | ||
| 3:04 PM | Infant formula use education and safety Judith Labiner-Wolfe, PhD, Sara B. Fein, PhD, Katherine Shealy, MPH, IBCLC, RLC | |||
| 3:17 PM | | Lessons learned: Development and evaluation of an interactive computer food safety education program for Women, Infants, and Children (WIC) Program clients, Miami, Florida Mary Jo Trepka, MD, MSPH, Frederick L. Newman, PhD, Karen J. Matthew, Evelyn P. Davila, MPH, Zisca R. Dixon, PhD, Fatma G. Huffman, PhD | ||
| See individual abstracts for presenting author's disclosure statement and author's information. | ||||
| Organized by: | Food and Nutrition | |||
| Endorsed by: | Maternal and Child Health; Women's Caucus | |||
| CE Credits: | CME, Health Education (CHES), Nursing | |||
The 135th APHA Annual Meeting & Exposition (November 3-7, 2007) of APHA