Alaska s Food Safety and Sanitation Program

1. Alaska’s Food Safety and Sanitation Program Ron Klein Alaska Department of Environmental Conservation Food Safety and Sanitation Program

2. FSS Program Responsibilities Basic Environmental Health Services at State and Local Level (except Anchorage) Provide all food safety services characteristic of State Health and Agricultural Departments Staff of 38 10 offices

3. Program Facts and Figures Manufactured Food Retail Food, Markets, and Warehouses School Lunch Pools and Spas Body Art Barbers and Hairdressers Public Accommodations Anything else that folks can think of..

4. Food Safety Program

5. 5 Seafood Processing Permits

7. 7 Food Safety Program Essential Functions: Permitting Regulatory Inspections Surveillance Testing Technical Assistance and Education Consumer Complaints Recall Food Products Labeling Emergency Mgt FDA and USDC Inspections

8. Retail Food Statewide coverage Inspection Reports on-line Delegate restaurants to Municipality of Anchorage CFPM and Food Worker Training Requirements Challenges – rural inspections and National School Lunch inspections

9. Food Safety, Nutrition and Transportation in Alaska Barge About 10 days from Seattle to Valdez, Whittier, Seward. Then trucked or rail to location in interior. Non-perishables, construction items, large, unusual sizes. Barge About 10 days from Seattle to Valdez, Whittier, Seward. Then trucked or rail to location in interior. Non-perishables, construction items, large, unusual sizes.

10. Bypass Mail The U.S. Post Office is bypassed and packages are taken directly to approved air carriers for transport. Bypass mail ships bulk items, from 1,000 pounds to 2,500 pounds, that are boxed up and put on a pallet for shipping. An example, a store in Akiak orders supplies and food from Costco in Anchorage. Store employees gather the items, box them up, put them on pallets and then haul the pallets to an air carrier that has special certifications and approvals from the U.S. government. Planes take the pallets from Anchorage to Bethel to Akiak. The customer pays parcel post rates, money that gets to the U.S. Postal Service. Alaska is the only state in the nation to have such a system for mail. 258 airports serve as primary mode of transportation, 160 airports are sole mode of transportation Bypass mail serves 139 villages, 80% of the mail volume in Alaska Bypass Mail The U.S. Post Office is bypassed and packages are taken directly to approved air carriers for transport. Bypass mail ships bulk items, from 1,000 pounds to 2,500 pounds, that are boxed up and put on a pallet for shipping. An example, a store in Akiak orders supplies and food from Costco in Anchorage. Store employees gather the items, box them up, put them on pallets and then haul the pallets to an air carrier that has special certifications and approvals from the U.S. government. Planes take the pallets from Anchorage to Bethel to Akiak. The customer pays parcel post rates, money that gets to the U.S. Postal Service. Alaska is the only state in the nation to have such a system for mail. 258 airports serve as primary mode of transportation, 160 airports are sole mode of transportation Bypass mail serves 139 villages, 80% of the mail volume in Alaska

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12. Temperature Control? Temperature extremesTemperature extremes

13. Security, food safety, Security, food safety,

14. Chill product next to TEDS Box. Product beside is lettuce (chill) and frozen product on the bottom of the pallet.Chill product next to TEDS Box. Product beside is lettuce (chill) and frozen product on the bottom of the pallet.

15. Food Safety and Nutrition 10 lbs potatoes from WA $14.99 Notice the stacks and stacks of soda in the background - nutrition10 lbs potatoes from WA $14.99 Notice the stacks and stacks of soda in the background - nutrition

16. Contrast with Barrow: $288.57/wk family of four for food $4.45/gallon gasoline Contrast with Barrow: $288.57/wk family of four for food $4.45/gallon gasoline

17. Gallon non-fat milk $9.89Gallon non-fat milk $9.89

18. Barges also to coastal Alaska communities – at least for part of the year Don’t miss the last barge of the year sailing SeptemberBarges also to coastal Alaska communities – at least for part of the year Don’t miss the last barge of the year sailing September

19. Notice no fresh foods – all canned, cleaning products, bottled drinksNotice no fresh foods – all canned, cleaning products, bottled drinks

20. Alaska Seafood Processors Advisory Committee Established in cooperation with industry Forum for communication, advice, sharing of information between the seafood processing industry, the department, and the scientific community Meetings open to the public with nationwide call in capability

21. Alaska Food Safety Advisory Committee Forum for communication, advice, sharing of information between the program and industry, growers, academia, and consumers Meetings open to the public with statewide call-in capability