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WHAT’S HAPPENING IN FOOD SAFETY ServSafe Starters Employee Online Course Launced by National Restaurant Association ational Restaurant Association has launched ServSafe Starters Employee Online Course at www.ServSafe.com/Starters. Designed for employee-level restaurant and foodservice workers, the ServSafe Starters online training program delivers core food safety training consistently and helps ensure that food is handled safely throughout the operation. “Food safety is a number one priority for the NRA and our members so we are pleased to introduce this newest addition to our ServSafe family of products. ServSafe Starters Employee Online Program will allow more foodservice professionals to have access to this important training and stay abreast of the most recent developments in safe food handling. Created by the restaurant and foodservice industry, this program – with its convenient online format – is a solution to minimize training costs while keeping businesses and customers safe,” said David Gilbert, acting executive vice president, products and services, National Restaurant Association Solutions. “In addition, operators have told us that documentation of training is critical, so the new ServSafe Starters online program has an online tracking capability. It allows the employee’s progress and status to be viewed online and recorded.” ServSafe Starters Employee Online Course is divided into five core sections: basic food safety, personal hygiene, cross contamination and allergens, time and temperature, and cleaning and sanitizing. A sixth section focuses on jobspecific needs. Each of the five sections can be completed in as little as 10 minutes each. The course, available in English and Spanish, uses interactive simulations allowing the employee to practice and retain the critical food safety lessons. tors, regulatory professionals and processors alike. The commercial display of the P3-A Symbol is intended to benefit equipment fabricators and customers: Equipment fabricators gain broad acceptance of their products because the P3-A Symbol conveys the equipment conforms to materials, design and fabrication criteria critical to acceptance by customers and regulatory authorities. P3-A Standards criteria help reduce the cost of dies, tools and intended delivery time that would result without uniform criteria. • Users and specifiers of equipment used for the production of Active Pharmaceutical Ingredients (APIs) gain confidence in the compatibility of equipment because experts on equipment design, pharmaceutical production and other authorities helped develop each P3-A Standard. They know the equipment meets basic criteria for the intended application. Complete details on the new P3-A Symbol and the application for authorization are available on the 3-A SSI Web site at www.3-a. org under Pharmaceutical 3-A and P3-A Symbol Authorization or go to: http://www.3-a.org/pharmaceutical/ symbol_authorization.html. In August 2008, 3-A SSI announced approval of the first three American National Standards for • N 3-A SSI Introduces New Symbol for Equipment Built to p3-A Standards T he Pharmaceutical 3-A (P3-A) Council of 3-A Sanitary Standards, Inc. announces the introduction of a new P3-A Symbol for use in conjunction with the marketing of equipment and machinery that meets the requirements of published P3-A Standards. The new registered mark combines the established and respected 3-A Symbol with the stylized ‘P’ to indicate conformance to a P3-A Standard. The P3-A Symbol was designed for voluntary display on equipment or machinery that conforms to a P3-A Standard. Use of the P3-A Symbol is subject to the general licensing provisions of 3-A SSI, including the inspection of sample equipment by an accredited independent inspection authority, known as a Certified Conformance Evaluator (CCE). A prospective licensee must submit a report of conformance for specific names/models of equipment to obtain authorization to display the mark. The third party verification inspection requirement for use of the P3-A Symbol enhances the recognition and the value of the P3-A Symbol for equipment fabrica- 228 FOOD PROTECTION TRENDS | APRIL 2009

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