Modernizing, Expanding, and Measuring the Impact of FDA Food Safety Initiatives

Project Summary: Modernizing, Expanding, and Measuring the Impact of FDA on Food Safety Initiatives In this CoAg we plan to take advantage of the alternative technologies developed to keep augmenting the availability of high-quality training opportunities to support the FSMA‘s Produce Safety Rule and other Rules implementation. These findings led to the

development of the Growing Safe Produce"/ "Produciendo con Inocuidad which was tested by JIFSAN and promoted in the second Cooperative Agreement. A previous study from IICA discovered the wide availability of mobile phones and internet usage throughout the Americas, and we will continue to leverage these findings.

We will continue developing videos, web- and app-based training materials that not only incorporate requisite training per the curriculum but also provide easy links to relevant portions of the Rule and other important documents so that the user can refresh their knowledge. This approach will take advantage of the prevalence of access to mobile technology

throughout the Americas to create a group of tools that address the needs of adult learners and non-traditional students. We will use well-tested approaches and learning techniques to ensure sustainable knowledge building and understanding around FSMA implementation. Working with partners in academia, we will measure the outreach of the

materials through descriptive statistics and develop case studies to measure impact.