National Food Safety Month Kicks Off 20th Anniversary

National Food Safety Month begins this week, marking 20 years of promoting best practices for food safety. The 20^th anniversary is being celebrated in September by featuring 20 top food-safety tips from the past two decades.

NFSM was created in 1994 by the National Restaurant Association to heighten awareness about the importance of food-safety education. It offers free resources for foodservice industry professionals at foodsafetymonth.com. Throughout September, the website will highlight tips for food-safety topics ranging from cleaning and sanitizing, cross-contamination and time-temperature control to personal hygiene and allergens.

Each year, NFSM offers a new theme and free training activities are created for the restaurant and foodservice industry to help reinforce proper food-safety practices and procedures. The training materials are based on the association’s ServSafe food-safety training and certification program.