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Training & Information Unit
Contact Person – Ms. Tameka Samuels
(Senior Food Storage Scientist)
e-mail: tameka.samuels@miic.gov.jm
This unit provides training and information in integrated pest management and food storage, handling and transportation.
Services Offered:
- Designing, developing, conducting and/or coordinating training programmes, workshops, seminars, symposia, etc. for the food industry, pest control operators and the general public with regard to:
a) integrated pest management in food and food related areas
b) pesticide application (fumigation, spraying, misting, fogging and baiting) in food and food related areas;
c) the identification, biology and control of pests of food and food areas (e.g. stored product pests, rodents, cockroaches);
d) the proper storage, handling and transportation of food;
e) inspection, sampling, sanitation, proofing and hygiene in the food areas;
f) the HACCP system;
g) food microbiology, mycotoxins and postharvest technology
- Provides/organizes consultations in the above listed areas
- Produces books, booklets, handouts, brochures, etc. re integrated pest management, food storage, micro-organisms, chemical residues in food and feed, biological toxins and other topics having an impact on food safety
- Provides and facilitates in-house training of FSPID staff on various topics including integrated pest management, factors affecting food in storage, sampling, the HACCP system, micro-organisms and laboratory techniques
- Provides FSPID staff and the food industry with the latest information re pest management and food storage techniques
- Regulates pest control operators
- Facilitates the disposal of unwanted and outdated pesticides
- Consultation with pest control operators and food storage, manufacturing and retailing facilities in order for them to attain the required operating standards
- Provides technical information on the types of pesticides allowed for use in food and food related areas
- Revises and updates the FSPI Act and Regulations
- Oversees the FSPID’s public relations programme
see training programmes
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