Food Safety; Pests and Vectors; Air Quality
On a large university campus, you are part of a team of professionals that addresses health and safety issues on campus. Food safety and Vector Control are two topics you have recently been asked to investigate. Write a 2-3 page paper in which you respond to the following two questions:
Food Safety
Question 1: On the university campus, there has been several complaints about dirty cafeterias. Several students have reported food borne illnesses to the student health center. You are asked to make recommendations to improve food safety in campus cafeterias. Members of your health and safety team are at odds over which approach to food safety best serves the interests of the campus 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 cafeteria and kitchen employees on the university campus. Note that a large percentage of these employees are working students.
b. Describe worker behaviors that may promote or compromise food safety. Please provide, at least, two examples.
Please be sure to justify your opinion with the literature.
Vectors
Question 2: Recently there has been numerous reports of increased mosquito bites on the university campus. As a matter of fact, there has been an increasing number of complaints that mosquitoes are preventing students from staying outside. Additionally, the local health department has put out advisories that there has been an increase in reported cases of encephalitis and a few deaths related to West Nile Virus in the county.
Unfortunately, your campus health and safety team is very limited in its personnel and its financial resources and so therefore, you have to chose the most efficient methods to control this problem. Based on the information concerning mosquitoes in this scenario, respond to the following:
a. Describe the top one recommendation you would give to the campus community to prevent being bitten 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.
Please be sure to justify your opinion with evidence from the literature below. You will have to copy and paste the links below to your search browser to read the required material.
Required Readings
Altekruse S.F., Cohen M.L. and Swerdlow D.L. (2007). Emerging Foodborne Diseases. Emerging Infectious Diseases 3(3): 285-293. Retrieved April 1, 2014, from http://wwwnc.cdc.gov/eid/article/3/3/97-0304_article.htm
California Air Resources Board (n.d.). The Know Zone: What is Air Pollution? Retrieved April 1, 2014, from http://www.arb.ca.gov/knowzone/students/airpollu/airpolpage/whatis.htm
California Environmental Protection Agency, Air Resources Board (2010.). The Children’s Health Study. Retrieved April 1, 2014, from http://www.arb.ca.gov/research/chs/chs.htm
California Department of Public Health (2013). West Nile Virus FAQs and Basics: Mosquito Control. Retrieved April 1, 2014, from http://www.westnile.ca.gov/wnv_faqs_basics.php?id=25
Ritz B. and Wilhelm M. (2008). Southern California Environmental Report Card: Air Pollution Impacts on Infants and Children. UCLA Institute of the Environment and Sustainability. Retrieved April 1, 2014, from http://www.environment.ucla.edu/reportcard/article.asp?parentid=1700
United States Department of Agriculture Food and Inspection Service (2013). Fact Sheets. Retrieved April 1, 2014, from http://www.fsis.usda.gov/Fact_Sheets/index.asp
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