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A food safety workshop for middle and high school teachers was conducted by members from North Carolina A&T State University on April 1st, 2014 at the NC FCCLA State Leadership Conference in Greensboro, NC. The workshop included several presentations and a group discussion as part of the Career and Technical Education Program for the Family and Consumer Sciences Education.

  • Dr. Rosa Purcell - Welcoming remarks
  • Dr. Salam A. Ibrahim - Introduction to food science and safety
  • Dr. Saeed A. Hayek - Introduction to safety of food products
  • Dr. Bernice Karltone-Senaye - Practices in food safety
  • Dr. Madhavi Hathurusinghe - Toxins and Allergens in Food
  • Rabin Gyawali - Food fermentation and probiotics
  • Ms. Samorya Evans - Food Microbiology
  • Mr. Temitayo Obanla - Food Biotechnology
  • Ms. Amira Ayad - Health and nutrition

 

2013 Food Safety Activities

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The food safety and microbiology group at North Carolina A&T State University held a two-hour food safety and preparation workshop at Wesley Chapel AME Zion Church, Asheboro, NC for the high school teachers and church members on Aug 17, 2013. The workshop was about health living as related to safety and healthy foods.

Activities and Presentations:

Dr. Rosa Purcell: Introduction to food and health
Dr Salam Ibrahim: how to prepare healthy and safe yogurt for the family
Marcella Cheek-Crook: Demonstration on food preparation and sensory evaluation of yogurt
Temmytayo Abanla, Bernice Karlton-Senaye, and Amira Ayad: Preparation and demonstrations for yogurt
Amira Ayad: Nutritional value of yogurt samples

The following were related to the 4 food safety steps:

Dr. Reza Tahergorabi: Basic food preservations

Bernice Karlton-Senaye: Cleaning and hand washing
Rabin Gyawali: Separation and fresh produce washing
Saeed Hayek: Temperature control, cooks, and chill

Career and Technical Education (CTE) Summer Conference for Family and Consumer Sciences Education was conducted on July 24, 2013 at Koury Convention Center in Greensboro, NC. This workshop focused on helping teachers understand basic knowledge in the area of food science including food safety/ practices, basic issues related to food microbiology and basic understanding of food protection and defense. North Carolina A &T State University food microbiology and safety laboratory will deliver a lecture on various topics. The graduate students in the food and nutritional science will present this lecture; the audiences for this workshop will be high school teachers of family and consumer sciences.

Presenters:

1. Drs.Valerie L. Giddings and Rosa Purcell - Introduction
2. Saeed Hayek - Food microbiology
3. Bernice Karlton - Senaye-Food Safety
4. Tarik Bor - Food Preservatives
5. Amira Ayad - Nutrition
6. Rabin Gyawali - Probiotics
7. Temitayo Obanla - Food Biotechnology
8. Marcella Cheek-Crook - Food defense

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Member Members of Dr. Martha Verghese's group at Alabama A&M University made multiple trips to local, regional high schools, and community colleges (Hazel Green, Ramsey High School, Fairfield Prep, Bishop State, Johnson High School, Lee High School, New Century High School, Grissom High School, Bob Jones High School, and Bishop State Community College) during Fall 2013 to introduce Food Science/Food Safety careers to Middle and High School teachers, counselors, and students.  Several interactive hands-on experiments were conducted during these workshops.

Alabama A&M University hosted a one-day “Teaching Science through Food Science” workshop for Middle and High School Science Teachers on June 27, 2013, from 8:30-5:00 pm. Ten teachers attended the workshop and participated in the activities listed below. All teachers were given protocols for experiments to be used in their classrooms.

Presentations
1. Introduction to Food Science
2. Applications in Food Safety
3. Bacterial Toxins and Food Borne Illness
4. Introduction to HACCP

Labs and Hands-on activities
1. 5 Second Rule
2. Introduction to Serial Dilutions
3. Isolation and enumeration of microorganisms from ground beef
4. Gram staining and microscope skills
5. Ice cream --Food safety


 

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