Food Safety
1. There has been several complaints in your community about dirty restaurants. Several restaurants are no longer in business as a result of a television expose. You are the head of a citizen task force and have been asked to make recommendations for improved food safety. The members of the task force are at odds over which approach to food safety best serves the interests of the community. Please provide a response to the following questions:
a. Explain which of the following two approaches to enhance food safety would be more effective in the long run, a stronger enforcement program by the local health department, or a mandatory food safety training requirement for all restaurant employees.
b. Describe worker behaviors that may promote or compromise food safety.
Please be sure to justify your opinion with the literature.
Vectors
2. Recently there has been numerous reports on increased mosquito bites in several neighborhoods in your community. Your staff has investigated these reports and have found them to be justified. In fact, there has been an increasing number of complaints that mosquitoes are preventing people from staying out in the early mornings and evenings. Additionally, the local health department has informed you that there has been an increase in reported cases of encephalitis and a few deaths related to West Nile Virus.
Unfortunately, your health department is very limited in its personnel and its financial resources. You have to chose the most efficient methods to control this problem. Based on the information concerning mosquitoes in this scenario:
a. Describe the top one recommendation you would give to the public to prevent being bit by mosquitoes that may transmit West Nile Virus. Justify your choice.
b. Describe the top one recommendation you would give to the community to control the mosquito population in the community.
Please be sure to justify your opinion with the literature.
Assignment Expectations
Use information from the modular background readings as well as any good quality resource you can find.
LENGTH: 2-3 pages typed and double-spaced, in addition to a cover page.
The following items will be assessed in particular:
Precision: Each of the questions of the assignment is specifically addressed in the paper. The paper describes your method of choice to improve food safety in restaurants, worker behaviors that compromise food safety, your recommendation to prevent mosquito bites, and your recommendation to control the mosquito population in a community with a health department that is limited in personnel and financial resources. The rationale of your choices is presented.
Clarity: The paper reads clearly, it is not confusing. It is well structured and grammatically correct.
Breadth: The paper presents appropriate breadth covering the questions of the assignment.
Depth: The paper thoroughly describes the tasks of the assignment. Your paper describes well the rationale behind your strategy of choice for improving food safety in restaurants. The paper includes examples of worker behaviors that compromise food safety. The paper describes well the rationales for your recommendation to reduce mosquito bites, and your recommendation to control the mosquito population.
Critical Thinking: The paper integrates your understanding of food safety principles and unsafe food handling practices by restaurant employees. The paper integrates your understanding of mosquito control to a community setting with practical limitations of resources that often face health departments
References: A reference list is provided at the end of your paper (APA formatting not required but highly recommended).