This week, Food Safety News is acknowledging leaders who help keep our food supply safe. Today we celebrate non-government organizations. Of course, no list is ever complete so if you think we’ve forgotten someone, please leave us a note in the comments. Non-Government organizations bring together groups of like-minded people
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IFPTI Announces Fellowship Program
The International Food Protection Training Institute (IFPTI) is currently accepting applications for the 2012-2013 “Applied Science, Law, and Policy: Fellowship in Food Protection” program.
This program is “designed to provide a select group of future leaders from the state and local food protection community with an intense professional development
FDA Boosts Food Safety Training
The Food and Drug Administration is putting its money where its mandate is in order to improve food safety training across the country.
The agency recently awarded a $6.5 million grant to the International Food Protection Training Institute (IFPTI) – located in Battle Creek, Michigan – to boost the Institute’s efforts to
Vilsack and Stabenow Visit IFPTI
Senator Debbie Stabenow (D-MI) and Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack paid a visit to the International Food Protection Training Institute (IFPTI) in Battle Creek, Michigan Monday to highlight the institute’s contribution to food safety.
The institute uses the first-ever national food protection curriculum to train food protection professionals at all levels
NSF Honors IFPTI for Food Safety Leadership
The International Food Protection Training Institute (IFPTI), which specializes in standards-based food protection training, was awarded the 2011 NSF Food Safety Leadership Trendsetter Award Wednesday at the Food Safety Summit in Washington, DC.
IFPTI has trained more than 1,300 food protection professionals from 47 states and provided emergency training in
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Food Protection Institute Exceeds Training Goal
The International Food Protection Training Institute (IFPTI) announced this week that it has trained 1,138 food safety regulators, exceeding its training goal of 1,000 officials for 2010.
The institute is a non-profit organization that provides standards-based food protection training to state and local food safety officials. The institute’s training
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Sniffing for Oil in Gulf Seafood
The International Food Protection Training Institute recently announced that it has partnered with the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s (NOAA’s) National Marine Fisheries Services (NMFS) and the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to train food protection officials to determine the safety and acceptability of seafood from the oil-contaminated Gulf
Q&A: Food Protection Training Institute
PART II of our conversation with Jerry Wojtala, executive director of the International Food Protection Training Institute
The
President’s 2011 federal budget was recently amended to include an $8
million request to fund the International Food Protection Training
Institute (IFPTI), a non-profit organization dedicated to
career-spanning food protection training for
Q&A: Food Protection Training Institute
A Conversation with Jerry Wojtala, executive director of the International Food Protection Training Institute
The President’s 2011 federal budget was recently amended to include an $8 million request to fund the International Food Protection Training Institute (IFPTI), a non-profit organization dedicated to career-spanning food protection training for state and local
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Michigan Food Safety Center to Receive $8M
The President’s 2011 federal budget was amended to include an $8 million request to fund the International Food Protection Training Institute (IFPTI), Congressman Mark Schauer (D-MI) announced yesterday.
The request is significantly greater than the $1 million approved in the 2010 federal budget, and will allow IFPTI to greatly