The Retail Food Outbreak Investigation tabletop exercise provides participants with a real-life, plausible retail food outbreak scenario to evaluate foodborne illness outbreak readiness and investigation procedures, interagency collaboration, communication, and jurisdictional issue management.
This inspector checklist and allergen poster for retail food facilities were developed for inspectors to use and to provide to food establishments for any compliance violation of allergen-specific risk factors.
The Retail Program Standards Reference System is a searchable knowledgebase that provides access to the U.S. Food and Drug Administration’s responses to questions related to the Voluntary National Retail Food Regulatory Program Standards. It is intended to promote a consistent understanding and application of the Retail Program Standards.
This two-page document from the Association of State and Territorial Health Officials provides a brief introduction to the Voluntary National Retail Food Regulatory Program Standards (Retail Program Standards) and highlights how enrollment benefits regulatory retail food programs.
The Employee Health Policy Tool is designed to help users navigate employee illness restriction and exclusion requirements from the 2022 Food Code based on roles and symptoms or diagnoses to prevent transmission of foodborne viruses and bacteria in food establishments.
This brief, from the Association of State and Territorial Health Officials, provides guidance to help retail food inspectors overcome communication barriers and cultural differences that may arise during retail food establishment inspections and food safety education.
The Retail Food Risk Factor Study Toolkit provides several resources to assist state, local, tribal, and territorial jurisdictions working towards conformance with the Voluntary National Retail Food Regulatory Program Standards – Standard 9 conduct retail food risk factor studies.
This infographic demonstrates how virtual food safety inspections can be a powerful tool for health departments. Learn when virtual retail food safety inspections can be used in place of in-person, the elements needed for a successful virtual inspection, and discover the tools some states have created for retail food establishments to utilize during virtual inspections.
The online Self-Assessment and Verification Audit Series provides detailed information about the U.S. Food and Drug Administration’s Voluntary National Retail Food Regulatory Program Standards, including how-to instruction for enrollment and advancement in conformance. This series of 10 self-guided courses is designed for program managers and others directly responsible for conducting program self-assessments or verification audits.
Video testimonials to enhance food safety training at the retail level by helping food employees understand the important role they play in protecting public health.