Partnership for Food Safety Education

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Soup kitchen set includes Fight BAC!® posters

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The set for the Horizon Theatre’s Atlanta production of GRAND CONCOURSE by playwright Heidi Schreck takes place in a church soup kitchen in the Bronx.

BAC Fighter and former PFSE Board member, Missy Cody, was delighted to see these Fight BAC!® safe food handling posters hanging on the set when she attended the production in early April!   We’re definitely for all actual and all theatrical kitchens posting Fight BAC!® food safety practices!  Thank you for sharing this with BAC Fighters Missy!

 

Kids in NY Daycare Centers Line Up to Wash Hands

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Shari Portnoy makes food with children every day as an Eat Well Play Hard Nutritionist for New York Day Care Centers. She teaches a six-week program that always starts with food safety, hand-washing and general nutrition.

Since young children like to touch everything, Shari starts her classes with a lesson on hand washing. Once their hands are clean, the kids get excited to make healthy food. They especially love to use veggie brushes to get produce clean.

When Shari returns for the next class, the kids line up to wash their hands so they can start the day!

Shari also reaches the general public with food safety information. She recently did a spot on Anderson Cooper Live about contamination in public restrooms and salad bars.

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Food Safety Gets Poetic

New York Students capture essence of 4 core food safety practices with haiku

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BAC Fighter Tara Mateo looked beyond the typical learning tools of worksheets and quizzes for a way to teach food safety – poetry!

After learning all about the four core messages, Tara’s students weren’t given an everyday quiz. Instead, they were instructed to write haikus. Short, simple, and reflective, these poems are the perfect way to convey food safety steps.

Learning didn’t stop in the classroom! Tara’s students hung their finished haikus around the rest of the school so that other students could learn about food safety too.

Thank you Tara and students for spreading these messages!

 

Eat Well and Play Hard

Shari Portnoy brings healthy eating messages to Brooklyn Kids

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Shari Portnoy works hard to bring nutrition, fitness, and food safety information to daycare centers in Brooklyn, New York as part of the Eat Well Play Hard in Child Care Settings program. Eat Well Play Hard aims to provide consistent and positive messages about eating healthy foods and being physically active to three and four year old children and their parents.

Recently, Shari used Fight BAC!® materials and posters to teach a group of 35 about food safety. She designed her class to facilitate discussion with parents. First, they collected snacks from tables Shari had set up beforehand. These weren’t just snacks – they were learning tools! Shari then asked the parents to make observations about the food and a discussion began that transitioned into an important food safety lesson.

Thank you, Shari for bringing important Fight BAC!® messages to Brooklyn kids, parents, and daycare staff!

Shari Portnoy is a Registered Dietitian (RD) and Certified Fitness Trainer (CFT) you can read more about her here: http://www.foodlabelnutrition.com/about.html#bio.