Developing a Professional Microbial Risk Analysis Training Course. H. A. Ahmad, T. Habtemariam, T. Berhanu, D. Oryang, D. Nganwa, H. Abdelrabman, and O. Ayanwale, Tuskegee University
Understanding the nature of risk associated with the food supply chain is one way of assuring public health and food safety. This objective can be achieved through long and short-term training of personnel responsible for food safety on how to determine risk associated with microbial food safety and importation of food products. For this purpose a risk analysis course is being developed at Tuskegee University to meet the needs of various groups including veterinary professionals and others who also need the expertise to conduct science-based risk assessments. This course could ultimately become an integral part of the agriculture and veterinary science curriculum at Tuskegee University. The course should especially attract mid-career professional in various disciplines who have interest in food safety and who because of work commitments cannot be involved in long-term onsite training. Besides the traditional mode, the course will be available on World Wide Web and through CD-ROMS. The course begins with an introduction to definitions and terminologies followed by the various regulatory requirements for risk analysis. In a step-by-step manner, the course will teach its audience how to build complex quantitative risk models using pathway analysis and systems models. For those who lack the necessary background, an introduction to requisite disciplines of Statistics, Epidemiology, and Economics will be provided. This course will consist of introductory, intermediary and advanced modules. The objectives vary for each level however; the ultimate goal is that after final training at the advanced level, the participant should independently build a sophisticated quantitative risk model for food safety problem.
Funded by USDA/CSREES.
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