Northborough and Southborough Public Schools Explore the Essentials of Food Safety

How does your school nutrition program create a culture of food safety? One important step is to assure all school nutrition staff are trained and have a working knowledge of basic food safety principles. Scheduling professional development in food safety for your school nutrition staff and managers is just a click away with an Essentials of Food Safety Workshop to Go presented by JSI. Your school nutrition staff will explore food safety basics, and discuss how to create a culture of food safety in your school. Discover effective strategies to avoid cross contamination, practice proper hand washing, and check and record food temperatures to avoid the danger zone. Utilize these basics to ensure your students are safe when enjoying all of the delicious food that you make!

On January 17, 2017, Northborough and Southborough Public Schools enhanced their food safety techniques with the JSI Workshops to Go: Essentials of Food Safety. In addition to the activities you see below in the photos, several others were incorporated to ensure the nutrition staff could reiterate main points of the presentation including:

  • “What type of hazard am I”?
  • Spot the TCS foods
  • Barriers to food safety
School nutrition staff at the Lincoln Street Elementary School in Northborough discuss a variety of scenarios in the “What Went Wrong?” activity.
Glo Germ hand washing activity showed the audience that hand sanitizer doesn’t remove the germs you think it does!

Find more resources used in the Workshops to Go: Essentials of Food Safety in the JSI Resource Center. JSI can help your school with the Essentials of Food Safety– schedule your training today!

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The John C. Stalker Institute of Food and Nutrition is a partnership of the Massachusetts Department of Elementary and Secondary Education and Framingham State University.

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The John C. Stalker Institute of Food and Nutrition is a partnership of the Massachusetts Department of Elementary and Secondary Education and Framingham State University.

This institution is an equal opportunity provider.
USDA Nondiscrimination Statement.

© The John C. Stalker Institute, 2023