train up to 2,000 to 3,000 food safety officials in 2011. Food Safety News recently had a chance to chat with Jerry Wojtala, executive director of IFPTI, about the history of the organization and its ...

Food-safety and sanitation training for restaurant kitchen workers requires a holistic approach that treats food safety as an integral aspect of the company’s culture. This should be demonstrated ...

The International Food Protection Training Institute (IFPTI) announced today that the Fiscal Year 2010 Appropriations bill passed by the U.S. Senate and House of Representatives provides $1 million ...

One in six people in the U.S. fall ill from foodborne illness every year. Roughly 3,000 Americans die from foodborne illness annually. In 2011, the Food Safety Modernization Act (FSMA) was signed into ...

BATTLE CREEK, Mich. & BATON ROUGE, La.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--The International Food Protection Training Institute (IFPTI) and the National Center for Biomedical Research and Training at Louisiana State ...

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With FDA’s publication of the final Produce Safety Rule and the Preventive Controls for Human Food Rule under the Food Safety Modernization Act, United Fresh is launching a new, multi-faceted training ...

LAKELAND, Fla. — For retailers, food safety is often a matter of training workers how to handle and store food properly. And few retailers do that as rigorously and comprehensively as Publix Super ...

AUBURN, Alabama -- Auburn University has been selected as a national food safety training center by the Food and Drug Administration. Over the course of the five-year program, Auburn will receive $6.5 ...

A California bill requiring food-safety training for all retail and restaurant food handlers was sent this week to Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger for his consideration, but proponents are concerned it may ...