WASHINGTON -- USDA's Food Safety & Inspection Service will hold regulatory education workshops for owners and operators of small and very small plants in California and Arkansas on April 8 and 9.
The workshops will cover a variety of topics and prerequisite programs, including hazard analysis and critical control points, sanitation performance standards, sanitation standard operating procedures, rules of practice, food defense strategies, E. coli O157:H7 workshops, and notices dealing with Escherichia coli O157:H7.
The April 8 session will be held at the Radisson Suites Hotel in Covina, Calif. The April 9 session will be held at the Courtyard by Marriott Little Rock West in Little Rock, Ark.
Registation is available by phone at 800-336-3747. Online registration forms and information about upcoming sessions can be found at www.fsis.usda.gov/News_&_Events/Outreach_Sessions_SVS_Plants/index.asp.