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Food Safety on the Web



Food Safety on the Web, a national satellite videoconference to 
promote awareness and use of USDA Food Safety Education Databases as 
critical resources in food safety educational planning, will be aired 
live from Kansas State University September 20, 1996 from 
12:00 am - 1:30 pm eastern time.

This Kansas, Wisconsin and Michigan Cooperative Extension Project 
targets educators in extension, public health, classroom, food 
service and elsewhere who are interested in using food safety 
educational curricula and resources. Possible audience includes food 
safety, nutrition and agriculture extension specialists and agents, 
elementary and secondary science and family and consumer science 
teachers, food handlers, dietitians, health officials, FDA regional 
contacts, State Department of Agriculture, Health and Education 
Coordinators and others.

The program will focus on the content of three recently compiled 
USDA databases: The Extension Food Safety Education Database, The 
National Food Safety Database and The Foodborne Illness Educational 
Materials Database. These databases are comprehensive and continually 
updated sources of abstracts or full text of educational curriculum 
and resources developed by public and private groups. 

The program will show types of resources catalogued in the databases 
and how to use these in educational settings. It will also highlight 
a number of successful food safety education programs referenced in the 
databases. Many of the educational curricula and resources are 
available for loan through the National Agricultural Library, 
Beltsville, Maryland. Database accessing instruction will be minimal 
but will be discussed in participant handouts.

We would appreciate if you would please forward this message to all 
those in your state and in any other networks you have who would be 
interested. 

This program can be downlinked free of charge. Satellite coordinates 
are: 

Ku Band, SBS6, 74 Degrees West, Transponder 12 Full, Downlink 
Frequency 1195 MHZ, Vertical Polarity, Audio 6.2/6.8

C Band T401, 97 Degrees West, Transponder 16 Full, Downlink Frequency 
4020 MHz, Horizontal Polarity, Audio 6.2/6.8

Please contact Steve Ballou at Kansas State University if you have 
questions about the coordinates. PHONE: 913 532-7692  
E-MAIL: sballou@oz.ozent.ksu.edu

Other promotional materials will not be sent to site coordinators. 
You may use information from this message or our web page in your 
promotion. 

A detailed listing of times for the program follows:

Pacific:   9:00 am - 10:30 pm
Mountain: 10:00 am - 11:30 pm
Central:  11:00 am - 12:30 pm
Eastern:  12:00 pm - 1:30 pm
Atlantic:  1:00 pm - 2:30 pm

Testing will begin 1/2 hour before the program starts. A phone number 
will be given you later to call if you have problems during the test 
period.

If you plan to register, either as a site coordinator or to tape the 
program only, we ask you to please subscribe to our listserv so that 
we can notify you immediately of new information concerning the 
satellite. A message will be sent out weekly until the program if new 
information is available. Subscribe by sending your request to this 
address:
         maiser@humec.ksu.edu
In the body of the message please write:
         subscribe foodweb your e-mail address, for example:
         subscribe foodweb freyen@humec.ksu.edu

Support materials will be sent electronically. There will be less 
than five pages for you to copy for each participant. For furher information and a list of downlink sites as we receive 
registrations, see our web page at the following address:

   http://www.oznet.ksu.edu/dep/fnut/foodweb.htm

If you register as a downlink site, you will be listed on our web 
page so that potential participants can contact the different site coordinators. 
Also, if you have a web address, please include it on this form to give further information 
about your site. 

The registration form for site coordinators follows. If you want to 
only tape the program and not coordinate a downlink site, please fill 
this form out and write TAPING ONLY across the area where you are 
asked for site information. Please fill the following form out, 
use the word REGISTER in the subject line of the heading, 
and send your form to:

               freyen@humec.ksu.edu

NAME:

TITLE:

ORGANIZATION:

ADDRESS:

CITY, STATE, ZIP:

DAYTIME PHONE:

FAX:

E-MAIL:

WEB ADDRESS:

NAME OF LOCATION FOR RECEIVE SITE:

ADDRESS:

CITY, STATE, ZIP:



CONTACT:

Jane Freyenberger
244 Justin Hall
Kansas State University
Manhattan, KS  66506
PH: (913) 532-1677
FAX: (913) 532-3132
E-Mail: freyen@humec.ksu.edu

Thank You,
Jane Freyenberger