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Recommended resources for food safety culture

Explore a comprehensive collection of multimedia resources dedicated to promoting food safety culture.

Here, you'll find recommendations for
books, podcasts, peer-reviewed papers, and more designed to support organizations in building strong food safety practices.

Whether you're a food industry professional or an educator, these tools help reinforce safe behaviors, improve communication, and foster a culture where food safety is a shared responsibility across all levels of operation.

Please note: The Alliance is focused on industry education and resource sharing. However, we defer to our good friends at the Partnership for Food Safety Education for food safety resources for home cooks and consumers.

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Third-party resources

Headquartered in Switzerland, Cultivate SA is a global consultancy firm founded by Dr. Lone Jespersen and her team of dedicated experts. Since their inception, they have been on a journey of fostering positive transformations in food safety cultures for over 165 food companies worldwide. Their unique blend of social, food, and data sciences empowers them to deliver tangible results, underpinned by methodologies that have been recognized in peer-reviewed journals.

IDFA advocates on behalf of America’s dairy industry to ensure our members have the tools and resources they need to innovate and thrive.

BOOKS

Food Safety = Behavior

Frank Yiannas

Food Safety Culture: Creating a Behavior-Based Food Safety Management System

Frank Yiannas

Developing and Maintaining a Positive Food Safety Culture

Christopher J Griffith Highfield

WHITEPAPERS

“A Culture of Food Safety: A Position Paper from the Global Food Safety Initiative (GFSI).”
Mike Robach, and Lone Jespersen, Global Food Safety Initiative. 2018.

“Food Safety Culture: People, Process and Policy – a Holistic Approach.”
Author: Alison Friel, SAI Global. 2021.

“European food safety: Mapping critical food practices and cultural differences in France, Norway, Portugal, Romania and the UK”
Editor: Skuland, Silje Elisabeth

Authors (alphabetical): Borda, D., Didier, P., Dumitraşcu, L., Ferreira, V., Foden, M., Langsrud, S., Maître, I., Martens, L. Møretrø, T., Nguyen-The, C., Nicolau, A. I. Nunes, C., Rosenberg, T. G., Skuland, S. E., Teigen, H. M., Teixeira, P., and Truninger, M.
Consumption Research Norway (SIFO), OsloMet. 2020.

“Implementation of Behavior-Based Training can Improve Food Service Employees’ Handwashing Frequencies, Duration, and Effectiveness.”
Authors: 
Heyao Yu, Jay Neal, Mary Dawson, and Juan M. Madera. 
Cornell Hospitality Quarterly, Volume
 59, Issue 1. 2018: 70-77. 

“A Structural Equation Model Demonstrating the Relationship between Food Safety Background, Knowledge, Attitudes and Behavior among Swedish Students.”
Academic Editor: Elena Arena
Authors: Ingela Marklinder, Gustav Eskhult, Roger Ahlgren, Anna Blücher, Stina-Mina Ehn Börjesson, Madeleine Moazzami, Jenny Schelin, and Marie-Louise Danielsson-Tham.
Foods. 

PODCASTS

International Food Technologists

Episode 29: All About Food Safety Culture

Food Safety Matters

Episode 123: Tia Glave, Jill Stuber: Coaching FSQ Leaders to Drive Positive Change in Culture

Download the toolkit

Download the Food Safety Culture Toolkit as a PDF for easy offline access anytime, anywhere. Perfect for use in the field, during trainings, or when internet access is limited, this downloadable version ensures you always have essential resources at your fingertips.

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