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September 24, 2015Consumer Health & Food SafetyPima County Health Department

Communicating Our Values

FDA Pacific Region Retail Food Seminar Helena, Montana

David Ludwig MPH, REHS, RS, CPM

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Ask Yourself – What is Your Role in the Food Safety Continuum?

• You may ask why is My Role Important?

• Who do you represent?

• Can I make a Difference?

• Where do I Start?

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All of us – no matter what position we hold has a

Level of Influence

In some positions this Level of Influence also contains a

Level of Control

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Consumer Health & Food SafetyPima County Health Department

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Consumer Health & Food SafetyPima County Health Department

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Throughout this Conference we have heard of some very Innovative Food Safety and Training Ideas!

You’ve met some Inspiring People and hopefully have networked with them or you know how to get their names and contacts – Right?

We are ready to keep the ball rolling

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Consumer Health & Food Safety

History of Food RegulationFebruary 25, 2015

1848 – out of concerns of food provided to troops in the Mexican-America War, inspections of adulterated food and drugs set standards on exported products like salted meats, fish and flour.

The Division of Chemistry started looking at agricultural commodities in 1867 following the first court case involving adulterated products where butter sued oleomargarine with butter winning and oleo being taxed.

Harvey W. Wiley was appointed Director of the Division of Chemistry and formed the “Poison Squad”, having young healthy men, volunteering to ingest food additive chemicals to determine their impact on human health.

Early in the 1880’s the Ladies Health Association provided the foundation for “pure food, drink and drug campaigns” s

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History of Food RegulationFebruary 25, 2015

1906 the Pure Food and Drug Act was passed and the Meat Inspection Act was a result of the Upton Sinclair’s publication of The Jungle. President Teddy Roosevelt when given a copy of the book, prompted inspections of the meat slaughtering houses and passage of the Act

1938, The Federal Food, Drug and Cosmetic Act was signed by Franklin D. Roosevelt , spurred by the Elixir Sulfanilamide disaster where 100 people died from elixir consumption

1976 FDA Guideline Food Inspection tool was developed using a 44 item and 100 point program

US Food and Drug Administration initiated a national guideline to food inspections, 1958

1993 FDA Uni-Code was a Science –based Code requiring individual State Adoption

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As you see from the history of our very proud profession, there have been innovative processes that have spurred on great accomplishments.

None of this would have occurred without our predecessors having a great Value system and one we must acknowledge and attempt to emulate.

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What are the Core Values

or Traits that should be

our Guiding Principles?

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A - Accomplishment, Achievement, Action-Oriented, Adaptability, Adventure, Affection, Alertness, Ambition, Appreciation, ArdentB - Belief, Beneficent, Benevolent, Boldness, Bravery, Brilliance, BrisknessC – Candid, Care, Carefulness, Certainty, Challenge, Charity, Charm, Chastity, Cheerfulness, Clarity, Classy, Cleanliness, Cleverness, Compassion, Competence, Complacency, Completion, Composure, Concentration, Confidence, Conformity, Congruency, Connection, Credible, Coherence, Cunning, CuriosityD – Daring, Dedicated, Dependable, Determination, Devotion, Dignity, Diligence, Diplomacy, Direction, Directness, Discernment, Discretion, Discipline, Discovery, Diversity, Dreaming, Drive, Duty, DurableE – Energetic, Enthusiastic, Ethical, Equality, ExcellenceF – Faithful, Fearless, Finesse, Forgiveness, Formidable, Free-Thinking, Fresh, FunG – Gallant, Generous, Genuine, Good, Gracious/GratefulH – Happy, Helpful, Honesty, Honorable, HopeI – Imagination, Immovable, Informative, Integrity, IntelligenceJ – Joyful, JustK – Kindness, KnowledgeL – Lasting, Learning, Legacy, Love, LoyalM – Malleable, Mastery, Meaningful, Memorable, MercifulN – Neat, Neighborly, Nimble, Noble, Non-Conforming, NurturingO – Obedience, Objective, Openness, Opportunity, Optimistic, Organization, Original, OutstandingP – Performance, Perseverance, Persistent, Personable, Planning, Politeness, Professionalism, PurityR - ResourcefulS – Strength, Stability, SturdyT – Togetherness, Tough, TruthU - UnityV – Valiant, Vigorous, VirtuousW - WisdomY - Yes-minded, YouthfulZ - Zen

Vision

See what is out there and

benchmarking your program to meet those challenges.

Be a Trim-Tab

Knowledge: Providing Training

Expanding Your Knowledge of

Foods and Culture

skill

Having a Learned Skill Set can make You Indispensable

DisciplineHaving the courage to make the stand and getting things

done – Everyday!

TEAM WORK having Everyone Peddling in the Same

Direction and sometimes at the same Speed

Attitude is Everything

Really it Is!!!

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Six Elements of Victimism:

• Criticizing• Complaining• Comparing• Competing• Contending• Cynicism

The take away here is that these are ineffective behaviors and you end up acting like a victim.

conscienceThere’s good days and then not so good days,

need I say more?

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7 Habits of Highly Effective PeopleBy Steven Covey:

• Be proactive.• Begin with the end in mind.• Put first things first.• Think win-win.• Seek first to understand,

then to be understood.• Synergize.• Sharpen the saw.

Differences Staffing Education Requirements

Staffing Levels

Inspection Frequencies

Public Information Sharing

Inspection Format • Violation Type • Scoring

Training

Specialization vs. Generalization

Code Version

Funding Structure

What do you Look for in a LEADER????

Ron Grimes – 2015 Walter Snyder Award Winner

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Question – After returning back to work, how are you going to make a difference?

Is there one idea that you would like to implement into your work area?

Create an action plan describing each step that must be taken to reach this goal!

The Action Plan must include a timeline to keep you on task.

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Who will you involve in your Action Plan?

Your Staff / Peers?

Your Manager?

How will you get their buy-in?

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How will you prepare to speak with your Board of Health?

Do you keep them informed about your programs on a regular basis?

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Shout out !

Mind -To Learn

Body

-To

Liv

e

Spirit -To Leavea Legacy

Heart -

To Love

Whole Body Paradigm

Covey model

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The Future of Food Safety is Truly in

Your Hands!