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2027 Advanced Inspector Boot Camp — Resilience, Culture and TCS Foods

Start January 14, 2027

Virtual / Live

About

During Advanced Boot Camp, inspectors will hear live discussions on several topics. This live, virtual training expands on training information for inspectors including understanding food safety plans, how to identify special processes, recognize and shape Food Safety Culture, identify what is a foodborne illness investigation, and much more.  This course will include interactive strategies to engage participants.  Material is repeated each year for a new audience but day three offers something new each year!

  • Agenda (PDF)

OBJECTIVES

Root Cause: Inspection vs. Investigation

TCS Food or Not: Identifying time/temperature control for safety food (TCS Food).

Food Safety Culture for All: Building Public Health Accountability in Food Safety Agencies: Identify and describe key characteristics of a positive food safety culture in regulatory programs.

Who Should Attend

Manufactured and Retail food inspectors with MORE than two years of experience 

Location

This virtual training is one of 3 Advanced Inspector Boot Camps. The others take place January 15, 2026 and January 29, 2026.

Travel

Course Length

4 hours

Seat Limit

1000 spots available
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DATE

January 14, 2027

COST

Free

NEHA/CDPH/AFDO Continuing Education Contact Hours — 4 Hours Food Protection

Who You Will Learn From

Deanna Copeland
Deanna Copeland
Association of Food and Drug Officials
Troy Huffman
Troy Huffman
Colorado Department of Public Health & Environment
Troy joined Colorado Department of Public Health & Environment in 2015 as retail food program manager after 24 years with Nebraska Department of Health & Human Services. As Conference for Food Protection state delegate and executive board member for nearly 20 years, he's helped develop the current food code.
Adam Inman
Adam Inman
Kansas Department of Agriculture
Adam Inman is Assistant Program Manager for Kansas Department of Agriculture's Food Safety and Lodging Program. He co-chaired AFDO's Retail Food Committee and Package Labeling Ad-Hoc Committee, served as Council I member for Conference for Food Protection, and chaired the Manufactured Foods Regulatory Program Alliance (2016-2017). He's a 2012-2013 International Food Protection Fellow.
Steve Mandernach
Steve Mandernach
Association of Food and Drug Officials
Steven Mandernach is Executive Director of the Association of Food and Drug Officials since 2018. Previously Bureau Chief for Food and Consumer Safety at Iowa Department of Inspections, he's a past AFDO president and current Laws and Regulations Committee co-chair. He holds a J.D. from Drake University and completed graduate food safety work at Michigan State.
This training program is supported by the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) as part of financial assistance award number U01FD008398, totaling $3,425,000, with 100 percent funded by FDA/HHS. The contents are those of the author(s) and do not necessarily represent the official views of, nor an endorsement, by FDA/HHS, or the U.S. Government.

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