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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

FSSAI, with WHO, launched a pioneering online training programme on Food Safety Risk Assessment. The initiative, inaugurated by CEO Rajit Punhani, includes a digital portal to bolster India's food ...

2 million children die from diarrhea because of microbiologically contaminated food and water. 76 million illnesses, 325,000 hospitalizations and 5,000 deaths annually are caused by food pathogens in ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 new law in California now requires restaurants to compensate employees for state-mandated food handler certifications. But the law has been weaponized by advocacy groups looking to push their own ...