DATE: 8/12/04                                                                                                CONTACT: Sue Hovey, (864) 427-6259                                                                 WRITER: Diane Palmer, (864) 656-4741

Clemson Extension to offer food  safety and sanitation training

Clemson Extension is trying to help keep South Carolinians from getting sick or even dying from unsafe food by offering the ServSafe Food Protection Manager Certificate training Sept. 14-15, from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. each day in Spartanburg .

ServSafe is the certified food safety training course written by the National Restaurant Association (NRA).

The fee of $150 covers a course book, training materials, a thermometer, and a leader’s guide to help the participants teach a shorter course to their employees.

The class will include: challenges to food safety, developing a HAACP food safety system, the flow of food, maintaining sanitary facilities and equipment, a national certification exam, and a train-the-trainer workshop with employee training materials.

The training will be taught by two Clemson University experts who are instructor trainers certified by the NRA, Libby Hoyle and Sue Hovey. Hoyle is a foods and nutrition professor in the department of packaging science and Hovey is a Clemson Extension family consumer science agent in Union County .

Contact Libby Hoyle at (864) 656-5713 or lhoyle@clemson.edu to register or for more information.

When registration is received participants will be sent a coursebook, detailed agenda and directions to the training site.

The classes will also be taught in Clemson Oct. 7-8 and in Sumter Nov. 16-17.

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