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Center for Food Safety & Applied Nutrition (CFSAN)
One of 6 centers within the FDA, CFSAN works to ensure that food is safe, nutritious and wholesome; that cosmetics are safe; and that food and cosmetics are honestly, accurately and informatively labeled.

Center for Infectious Disease Research & Policy (CIDRAP)
CIDRAP, located at the University of Minnesota, works to support the development of and refine public policies relating to the prevention, control, and treatment of infectious diseases to ensure that they reflect the most current biomedical knowledge and to promote practices among both healthcare professionals and the public that aim at reducing illness and death from infectious diseases through provision of accurate, up-to-date information and education.

Center for Science in the Public Interest (CSPI)
CSPI "is a nonprofit education and advocacy organization that focuses on improving the safety and nutritional quality of our food supply and on reducing the carnage caused by alcoholic beverages. CSPI seeks to promote health through educating the public about nutrition and alcohol; it represents citizens’ interests before legislative, regulatory, and judicial bodies; and it works to ensure advances in science are used for the public good."

Food and Drug Administration (FDA)
The FDA "assures the safety of foods and cosmetics, and the safety and efficacy of pharmaceuticals, biological products and medical devices."

Food Safety
Food Safety contains links to food safety initiatives, federal/state government agencies, consumer advice, food borne illness and news & safety alerts.

National Food Safety Initiatives
Coalition of the FDA, USDA, the EPA and the CDC, the National Food Safety Initiative site contains information on the following food related activities: surveillance, inspections, education, coordination, risk assessment and safety initiatives.

Restaurant Beast
Restaurant Beast is an on-line network for food service professionals. The site provides downloads of business forms and other food service industry documents, including a Spanish food safety brochure, HACCP decision tree and forms to signs.

Restaurant Workshop Inc. (RWI)
RWI's mission is to be a source for Hotel, Restaurant, Bar owners and managers, to professionally analyze their operation, to assist in the correction of operational shortfalls with minimal investment. To also bring the hospitality industry the latest in management and employee training. The site offers links to training and education on food safety issues and additional resources.

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