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New demands and new opportunities call for fundamental shifts in thinking on food safety. The JIFSAN program is designed to help you respond to these challenges with cutting-edge approaches. The program provides information and insights necessary to help organizations respond to a rapidly shifting environment in food safety and prepares you to lead change by integrating risk analysis principles into your organization's programs.

 

Upon completion of the JIFSAN Professional Development Training Program in Food Safety Risk Analysis participants will:

  • Know and understand the terminology of food safety risk analysis and risk analysis in general
     
  • Understand how food safety and other health decisions are made utilizing risk analysis
     
  • Know systematic approaches, tools and techniques to address specific food safety problems
     
  • Have the knowledge to participate in the risk management decision process
     
  • Understand how to communicate effectively about risk with peers, managers, and stakeholders

Participants will receive a JIFSAN Certificate of Completion with Continuing Education Units.

Who should attend:

  • Lab and Regulatory Scientists
  • Food Safety Policymakers
  • Regulatory Professionals
  • Public Health Practitioners
  • Risk Managers, Analysts, and Communicators
  • Academicians and Students

Our Students Come From:

  • Federal and National Agencies
    State, Provincial, and Local Governments
  • Academia
  • Food Industry
  • Trade Organizations and other NGO’s
  • Legislative and Legal Profession

 



PROGRAM HIGHLIGHTS
• Risk Management Techniques
• Fundamental Risk Communication Skills
• Factoring Variability and Uncertainty into Decision Making
• Risk Assessment Practices and New Directions
• Epidemiology Principles
• Toxicology of Food Safety Hazards
• Cost-benefit Analysis in Risk Analysis
• Trade-off Analysis
• Exposure Assessment Principles
• Quantitative Methods

 


 

 

JIFSAN
University of Maryland
0220 Symons Hall
College Park, MD 20742
E-mail: jifsan@umail.umd.edu
Tel.: (301) 405-8382 Fax.: (301) 405-8390
 

 

University of Maryland JIFSAN