NCBRT - A Coordinated Response to Food Emergencies: Practice and Execution

    Overview: This course will provide responders with training on all-hazards food emergency response procedures with an emphasis on enhancing communication to facilitate the response effort.  For the purposes of this course, food emergencies may include terrorism, naturally occurring events, or accidents that impact the food chain with the potential for mass consequences.  The course will focus on federal, state, and local agency communication and coordination during the response to and recovery from such emergencies.


    Scope: The course will be a performance-level, instructor-led course that addresses effective communication and coordination between food emergency response personnel during an incident response.  Participants will apply the knowledge and skills they have learned in the course by participating in practical exercises.  Participants will complete a comprehensive post-test and course evaluation.

    Audience: IFPTI/AFDO recommends an audience of food regulatory, environmental health, laboratory, and epidemiology program specialists/managers/directors from around the country.  The expressed intent is that these program leaders be able to experience the course so they can then recommend a delivery of the course to an audience within their state and invite a cross-section of their own stakeholder target audiences representing different disciplines (lab, food regulatory, epi, animal health, local health, FDA, FSIS, DHS, FBI, etc.).  We have seen great benefit to having the different agencies in a state together in one room since this course is about communication and coordination, so this offering should try to expose decision-makers to this new DHS course.

    Prerequisites:In accordance with the Department of Homeland Security requirements, all participants must be United States citizens.  Participants also should be familiar with their respective roles and responsibilities with regard to food emergencies.

    Course Duration: 2 full days (plan for travel the day before and the day after the course)


    Courses Held: 

    February 24-25, 2010, Battle Creek, MI [View Press Release]
    July 27-28, 2010, Battle Creek, MI

    Description courtesy of NCBRT

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