Creative ideas to tell kids about my food safety/quality assurance job

Hi all ,

my daughter is in kindergarten she begged me to participate in her school Career day any creative ideas , pictures, to help kids understand what`s a food safety/ Quality Assurance Job ?  

Thank you

FDA/USDA/CDC all have great resources for education materials.

I find USDA one is more easy to understand for kids & teens. Check the following resource:

https://www.fsis.usd...-kids-and-teens

http://www.fightbac....d-programs/#k-3

On the contrary, explaining Kindergarten kids about moisture or microbial testing can be difficult. :huh:

Hope it helps.

Thank you

I know its very hard for kindergarten kids to understand our job I want to make it easy and fun for them .  

The glo-germ kit is fun to do. If you don't have one - depending where you're located, you could potentially borrow one from your local public health or Extension office. 

To show physical contamination: fill a plastic bag with rice, then add little objects to it. Or teach about metal contamination using a magnet and put random items in for example a bag of rice with metal items in it.

For quality assurance - bring a bag of large noodles, crackers, chips etc. Have one bag of broken chips and a normal bag. Now ask them - which would they prefer to eat. Or brown/rotten fruit vs fresh.

 

I know its very hard for kindergarten kids to understand our job   

I often feel the same about senior management  :whistle:

Perhaps some (child friendly) real case pictures of bugs in food  :rolleyes:

Here's a few resources... http://www.fightbac....and-activities/

These are all great ideas. Magnets especially, I like. Do you remember when they used to tell us to try a magnet on iron-fortified cereal, and you could pull tiny iron filings of of the corn flakes?

Please lets us all know how it goes!