Interactive “Food Safety Ninja” Website Launched by Local Health Department
The Lake County General Health District (LCGHD) of Ohio has announced the re-launch of its Food Safety Ninja website, which was originally developed with support from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA). The newly designed resource provides food safety information that is relevant to foodservice and food retail establishments.
The creation of the original Food Safety Ninja website began in 2015 when LCGHD obtained a 5-year FDA grant to improve the food safety program in Lake County, Ohio. Included within the grant was the requirement to create an innovative food safety intervention directed at food establishments. To develop the educational intervention, LCGHD food staff reached out to a local professor from the Cleveland Institute of Art (CIA). The original website served as an educational intervention to which licensed food establishments were sent for remedial education when certain food safety violations were found during a routine inspection.