The Folklorama in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada is a 14-day temporary food service event that explores the many different cultural realms of food, food preparation, and entertainment. The ethnic nature and diversity of foods prepared within each pavilion presents a very unique problem for food inspectors as each culture prepares food in their own very unique way. The Folklorama consists of 46 pavilions with approximately 442,000 visits annually. There are approximately 600,000 meals served and 1,000,000 beverages poured throughout the event.
In 2010, the Russian pavilion was implicated in a food borne outbreak of E. coli O157:H7causing 37 illnesses and 18 hospitalizations due to cross contamination. Both the Department of Health and the Folklorama Board of Directors realized a need for an implementation of food safety delivery program that would be more effective than simply a 2 hour food safe course delivered via power point. A comprehensive hands-on only food safety training protocol was administered to the food operator and event coordinator for Folklorama in a commercial kitchen and results assessed via inspection reports.
Sounds really interesting!
ReplyDeleteI would go to this!
ReplyDeleteWould love to know the results. I can see how a hands-on approach would be beneficial.
ReplyDeleteWith such a high attendance, and so much of Folklorama revolving around food, I can only see this as an extremely important part of the process and experience. Great to see that this is being more thoroughly investigated and regulated. Applicable to so many large venue events around the country and throughout the continent!
ReplyDeletesounds like an excellent way to teach volunteers, would love to get more background information.
ReplyDeleteI'm encouraged to see hands-on food safety training for events like these. Great effort. Hope to see more.
ReplyDeleteThis strategy to deliver hands-on training to volunteers with different background sounds very interesting. Presenting information in a dynamic approach has a better effect for information retention. Volunteers should be able to remember and apply better the knowledge they obtained that way. Engaging the audience during learning is key for good results.It will be interesting to learn the results of the inspection reports after this type of training was conducted. Great initiative!
ReplyDeleteI was very fortunate to attend this presentation at the 2012 CIPHI National Educational Conference in Ontario, Canada. Very interesting and informative presentation..........a must see.
ReplyDeleteBrilliant! Such a great novel idea! Fantastic!
ReplyDeleteWell done! As a medical doctor this has very interesting public health ramifications! Very interesting!
ReplyDeleteOK, interesting from the food health perspective...are there any lessons learned for the non-food folk out there?
ReplyDeleteHi, thanks for your comment. Yes, how to effectively train adult workers whether it be in the food industry or elsewhere. in particular how to train English as Second Language (ESL) students.
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Rob
This sounds interesting...Certainly a topic area that could be covered in more depth and detail. The author presents an interesting point of view with valid arguments. Well written and very interesting and informative.
ReplyDeleteThank you for your comment, the presentation will definately provide furhter detail on the hands-on food safety training regimen.
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Hands on has always proven benificial , well done Rob
ReplyDeleteThank you very much for your comment.
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