Conference for Food Protection

2016 Biennial Meeting

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Issue Number: Council III 006

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HHC 4 - Recommendations to FDA

Issue you would like the Conference to consider

A letter be sent to the FDA:

  1. Encouraging the development of handwashing performance standards that will allow evaluation of equivalent alternate procedures for soil removal from hands of food handlers.
  2. Encouraging CFSAN (Center for Food Safety and Applied Nutrition) to work in conjunction with CDER (Center for Drug Evaluation and Research) to define antiseptic criteria for food handler use.

Public Health Significance

Handwashing is a critical factor in reducing fecal-oral pathogens that can be transmitted from hands to RTE food as well as other pathogens that can be transmitted from environmental sources.

In order to evaluate any alternate procedures that may be equivalent to the handwashing procedures that are prescribed in the Food Code, establishing performance standards by which to compare are necessary. Additionally, antiseptic criteria for food handler use is necessary.

Recommended Solution: The Conference recommends...

that a letter be sent to the FDA:

  1. Encouraging the development of performance standards that will allow evaluation of equivalent alternate procedures for soil removal from hands of food handlers.
  2. Encouraging CFSAN (Center for Food Safety and Applied Nutrition) to work in conjunction with CDER (Center for Drug Evaluation and Research) to define antiseptic criteria for food handler use.

Submitter Information 1

Name Lori LeMaster
Organization Hand Hygiene Committee Co-Chair
Address 710 James Robertson Pkwy
Nashville, TN 37243
Telephone TBD
Email Lori.LeMaster@tn.gov

Submitter Information 2

Name Christina Bongo-Box
Organization Little Caesars Enterprises Inc
Address 2211 Woodward Avenue
Detroit, MI 48201
Telephone 313-471-6689
Email christina.bongo-box@LCEcorp.com

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