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Rescheduled! - FSMA Grower Training & Food Safety Plan Workshop

  • 07/24/2018
  • 07/25/2018
  • 2 sessions
  • 07/24/2018, 8:00 AM 5:00 PM (CDT)
  • 07/25/2018, 8:00 AM 12:00 PM (CDT)
  • Northeast Texas Community College

Registration

Because of extenuating CIrcumstances we have decided to RESCHEDULE this training. Stay Tuned for more information!


Join us for produce safety training for FSMA compliance!


July 24 & 25, 2018    
Northeast Texas Community College
2886 FM 1735
Mount Pleasant, TX  75455


New regulations are making it imperative that good food safety practices become a part of farmers daily lives. The Food Safety Modernization Act (FSMA) brings additional responsibilities to most fruit and vegetable growers. This course will provide the information needed to help growers navigate the new FSMA Produce Rule regulations, including available exemptions. 

Participants completing the entire 7 module course and documentation will receive a certificate from the Association of Food and Drug Officials. Take-home material will include a Produce Safety Alliance Grower Training resource manual.

Day 1 - July 24 , 2018 from 8:00am - 5:00pm

This day will consist of all 7 modules of the PSA Grower Training. Participants must attend the full day to receive a certificate. 

Day 2 - July 25, 2018 from 8:00am - 12:00pm

This workshop will focus on creating a Food Safety Plan. Attendees will have time to work through the parts of a food safety plan for their farm through collaborative methods with presenters and other attendees.


Current TOFGA Members: $10/day or $15 for both (to access the member code for registration, please sign in to the members-only section of the website and select "Member Benefits" from the Members-Only dropdown menu. Forgot your password? Reset it.)

Non-TOFGA Members: $15/day or $25 for both.  Want to become a member? Sign up.

Presenters:
Billy Mitchell - PSA Lead Trainer, National Farmers Union
As FSMA Training Coordinator for NFU, Billy plans, organizes, and instructs Produce Safety Alliance Grower Trainings, food safety field days, and shorter FSMA or food safety workshops around the country. These trainings target small- to mid-sized local producers and processors, including organic, sustainable, value-added, diversified, and socially disadvantaged growers who serve local markets.

Prior to this position, Mitchell worked on different diversified vegetable farms in Georgia, and spent the past year and a half with Global Growers coordinating on farm food safety workshops with different Georgia agricultural service groups.

Mitchell, originally from Chicago, received his Bachelors from Bradley University in Peoria, IL, and now lives on the coast of Georgia. He is an active cyclist, cook, and drummer and will be assisting a farm to grow vegetables and flowers for a farm to table restaurant on the coast.

Susie Marshall - PSA Trainer, TOFGA grant project director
As part of TOFGA's Food Safety Outreach program grant to educate small producers on the new FSMA regulations, Susie coordinates all workshops within Texas as well as workshops with the Southern Sustainable Agriculture Working Group (SSAWG) conferences and with other organizations in surrounding states. Susie is a PSA trainer. 

Outside of her work with TOFGA, Susie runs GROW North Texas, a local food system nonprofit in Dallas that works to increase food production and food access in the North Texas area. Susie is a Dallas native and has a Bachelors from Texas Wesleyan and Masters degrees from Texas A&M Commerce and Southern Methodist University. 


This workshop is presented as part of a grant from the USDA National Institute of Food and Agriculture. 
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