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FMI Offers Resource Book on Creative, Comprehensive Food Safety Training Tools

December 27, 2000
      WASHINGTON - December 27, 2000 – The first Food Marketing Institute (FMI) Food Safety Programs Resource Book highlights a comprehensive selection of 37 multi-media products to educate food industry associates about food safety concerns. From sanitation and merchandising to vendor qualification and consumer education, the catalog provides food retail executives and store-level employees with authoritative resources to aid in developing effective food safety policies and procedures.

Food handlers and their managers can benefit from the Food Handler's Pocket Guide, which provides everyday, food safety information from personal hygiene to food preparation and dispensing. Based on the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) Food Code, the guide easily fits in a shirt pocket and is available in Spanish. For teaching food retail associates the best food safety practices in the industry, FMI offers The Invisible Challenge video kit - available in Spanish & English - complete with a trainee quiz, colorful educational posters and the Food Handler's Pocket Guide. A new video, Food Safety Success: Supermarket Application of the Food Code, highlights food safety priorities that ensure customers take home the safest and highest quality foods.

FMI's Food Safety Programs Resource Book also offers three industry manuals that provide guidance in establishing disaster planning, risk communication and food reclamation policies. The Communications Manual is a one-stop guide to all aspects of public relations -- employee, media, community and Congressional relations, and the fine art of crisis communications. The Pre-Emergency Planning & Disaster Recovery Manual complements the Communications Manual by providing guidance of on-site emergencies such as bomb threats or natural disasters. The trilogy of situation management handbooks is complete with the publishing of FMI's Recall Manual.      

The Food Safety Programs Resource Book is a free publication and is available from FMI's Publication and Video Sales by calling (202)220-0723.
   
   

Food Marketing Institute proudly advocates on behalf of the food retail industry. FMI’s U.S. members operate nearly 40,000 retail food stores and 25,000 pharmacies, representing a combined annual sales volume of almost $770 billion. Through programs in public affairs, food safety, research, education and industry relations, FMI offers resources and provides valuable benefits to more than 1,225 food retail and wholesale member companies in the United States and around the world. FMI membership covers the spectrum of diverse venues where food is sold, including single owner grocery stores, large multi-store supermarket chains and mixed retail stores. For more information, visit www.fmi.org and for information regarding the FMI foundation, visit www.fmifoundation.org

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