Description: Foundational knowledge related to public health principles.

Terminal Competency:

Discuss foundational knowledge related to public health principles.

Enabling Competencies:

1. Explain public health.

2. Discuss the role of laboratories in public health.

3. Illustrate how food safety is part of public health.

4. Relate how human and animal food laboratories impact public health.

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Description: The relationship of laboratories and regulatory agencies when making public health decisions.

Terminal Competency:

Describe how laboratories interact with regulatory agencies.

Enabling Competencies:

1. List the regulatory actions taken based on laboratory results.

2. List the public health decisions made based on laboratory results.

3. Recognize the importance of maintaining legal defensibility.

4. Differentiate between traceforward and traceback.

5. Define the role of surveillance in public health decisions.

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Description: A person who analyzes human and animal food for the protection of public health.

Terminal Competency:

Describe a human and animal food analyst.

Enabling Competencies:

1. Define the analyst’s role in public health.

2. Give examples of human and animal food contaminants.

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Description: Multiple cases of illness related to human and animal food contamination.

Terminal Competency:

Give examples of the importance of testing in human and animal food related events.

Enabling Competencies:

2. Explain the importance of human and animal testing to prevent outbreaks.

3. Explain the importance of human and animal testing in an outbreak situation.

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