Centennial Celebration - Food

>> Narrator: U G A Extension also helps consumers and businesses when it comes to food-related topics. Family and Consumer Science agents help consumers make confident and informed food selection decisions by considering information such as nutrition and food costs. They also administer safe food handling, preparation, serving, and preserving guidelines to help prevent food-borne illness. >> Judy Harrison: I work with consumers and with farmers and market managers and other people throughout the State of Georgia teaching them how to handle foods safely. U G A Cooperative Extension helps farmers to grow local markets. We help farmers know how to handle food safely and get it into the market place. It’s not about selling a product; it’s about actually making sure that people are healthy and safe. >> Elizabeth Andress: Extension food preservation programs today which are popular and being conducted actually all over the country consist of teaching people safe and high quality ways to mainly can, dehydrate, freeze, make jams and jellies and pickled foods. Our agents in Georgia, for the past few years, have been offering more and more hands-on workshops for people that are wanting to learn to preserve food at home. We deliver ServSafe training usually through 2-day workshops for manager training in Georgia. I know of several instances where people have said “Because I already had ServSafe certification, they hired me over somebody else.” (c) 2014 University of Georgia College of Agricultural and Environmental Sciences UGA Extension Office of Communications and Creative Services