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Town Hall Meeting Discusses
Traditional Foods Project
(Santa Ana) – The Health Care Agency will
be holding a Town Hall meeting with Vietnamese community leaders and
restaurant owners on July 13, 2005 from 12:30 p.m. to 2:30 p.m. at the
Westminster Community Services & Recreation Center, 8200 Westminster
Blvd, Westminster, to share information about a new project known as the
Traditional Foods Project. This project adopted an exciting and new way
of encouraging the Fresh is Best concept among food preparers within the
Vietnamese community.
The project started in September 2003 with local Vietnamese restaurant
and market owners coming together with community leaders, health
educators, academia, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration, and the
Health Care Agency to find creative solutions to food safety issues
within the community. A major goal of this Partnership Committee was to
make improvements in food safety without compromising the food’s taste
or quality for consumers. The Committee reviewed the characteristics of
the traditional Vietnamese foods, identified specific foods for
laboratory analysis, and modeled food storage and handling procedures on
guidance provided in state health laws. The result is that using time
limits on food storage vastly improves the safety of foods.
The Traditional Foods Project is a voluntary program that is a great
benefit to the community because the public is assured that
participating retailers are providing the safest prepared foods
possible. The Town Hall meeting on July 13, 2005 will be an excellent
opportunity to learn more about this innovative new project and to hear
from local community leaders.
For more information about the Traditional Foods Project and the Town
Hall meeting, please call Patricia Gentry at (714) 433-6012.
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