WASHINGTON: Food Safety Partnership announces new members and expanded board - (PR Newswire)
June 3, 2008 – 8:31 pmWASHINGTON — The Partnership for Food Safety Education, a non-profit organization dedicated to improving public health through research-based, actionable consumer food safety education, has announced an expanded Board of Directors and the addition of two leading food industry organizations as new contributing members.
The Grocery Manufacturers Association (GMA) and the American Frozen Food Institute (AFFI) join the Partnership at a time of increased attention to consumer outreach through activation of retailers and food and consumer product companies.
GMA and AFFI join industry, consumer, health and scientific professional organizations, and Federal agency liaisons, that for ten years have led development and dissemination of the Fight BAC!(R) campaign and, now, Be Food Safe, a new campaign designed to bring the basic consumer safe food handling messages of Clean, Separate, Cook and Chill to places where people shop for food.
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