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FDA Oral Culture Learner Project - Educational Materials for Food Employees

The goal of this project is to provide materials and methods to our stakeholders that are effective in helping food employees understand the reasons why following proper food safety practices is important to prevent illnesses, deaths, and loss of income and reputation resulting from food-related outbreaks. The materials have been designed for oral culture learners, which research has shown most food employees to be.

The materials (posters and storyboards) dealing with employee health, no bare hand contact with ready-to-eat food, and handwashing will soon be available in seven different languages, including Hindi, Korean, Russian, Simplified Chinese, Traditional Chinese and Spanish. These materials are not copyrighted; therefore, you may post these materials on your website and distribute them freely. We kindly ask, however, that you credit FDA when using or posting the materials.

No Bare Hand Contact with Ready-to-Eat Food

Employee Health

Proper Handwashing

Prevention of Cross-Contamination

Proper Hot Holding of Time-Temperature Control of Safety Foods

Proper Cooling of Time-Temperature Control of Safety Foods

  • Why It's Important to Cool Food Properly (PDF, 0.50 MB) (Version 1 – limited text)
  • Why It's Important to Cool Food Properly (PDF, 0.54 MB) (Version 2 – storyboard with text)
  • Cool Food Properly to Prevent Foodborne Illness and Save Your Job (PDF, 1.51 MB)

Proper Cooking

(Materials Coming Soon!)

Proper Cold Holding and Date Marking of Time-Temperature Control of Safety Foods

(Materials Coming Soon!)

Approved Food Sources

(Materials Coming Soon!)

Proper Use and Storage of Chemicals

(Materials Coming Soon!)

Sample Poster: Don't Let What Happened to Me, Happen to You

A nine-panel photo storyboard poster that depicts the step-by-step progression of a foodborne illness outbreak. A food employee is experiencing vomiting at work.

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