Effectiveness of International Food Safety Train-The Trainer Programs in Good Agricultural and Aqua cultural Practices: Evidence from Survey Instruments

The Food Safety Modernization Act (FSMA) aimed to reinforce the move for the US food supply by shifting the focus from responding to contamination to preventing it. The Act also charged the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to develop a comprehensive plan to expand the technical, scientific and regulatory capacity of foreign governments exporting foods to the US, and their respective food industries. To that end, the Joint Institute for Food Safety and Applied Nutrition (JIFSAN), FDA’s international food safety trainings center, developed a monitoring and impact approach that has been in place for all their trainings since late 2012. This poster presents findings from this work