We are proud to be promoting food safety via our social media platforms in conjunction with The Canadian Partnership for Consumer Food Safety Education (CPCFSE). We are looking for tips from our members to share in order to communicate and educate consumers about food safe practices. We have set a goal of posting 3 photos + tips each month and are looking to you to help us achieve it! It's super simple! All we need from you is... 1. An original photo 2. A brief description of a unique food safety tip or a brief description of what food safety means to you. We will put the two together to create an infographic similar to the two below submitted by OHEA members Jason Eaton, P.H.Ec., and Tamara Saslove, P.H.Ec., and presto, we will share your photo and tip on all OHEA social media platforms to help increase public food safety awareness! Click here to find more inspiration on the CPCFSE Be Food Safe website.
Please send your contributions to Tamara and Jason : tamara@ohea.on.ca & jason@ohea.on.ca
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Health Canada wants to restrict the amount of marketing of unhealthy food and beverages to children. They need the feedback of all Canadians to help decide on what kind of marketing and advertisement will be allowed.
Health Canada is looking for feedback from Canadians who are consumers, work in industry, work in universities, work in health organizations, are interested in healthy eating, work in any level of government or work in non-government organizations. Anyone can participate. The consultation document is available online between June 10 and July 25, 2017. Click HERE to participate in the online consultation and help take a step towards a healthier environment for our children! Last week was Local Food Week, and some of our OHEA members had the opportunity to visit local farms and learn about how our food is grown and raised. The tour was hosted by Farm & Food Care Ontario with support from CropLife Canada, Turkey Farmers of Ontario and Greenbelt. A big thank you to Michele McAdoo, Erin MacGregor & Heather Grebler for sharing their photos and information from the tour. The morning started at Weber Turkey Farm where the group learned about turkey production in Canada and put on white suits (pictured below) to respect the bio security of the turkey farm. There are 180 turkey producers and 300 farms across the country. Canada produces 170 million kg of turkey meat each year, 80 million kg of that right here in Ontario! Next they visited Vaughn Agricultural Research Services and learned about the development of new crop protection services (pesticides). After testing is completed on site, and at another site at The University of Guelph, Health Canada has the final approval for new pesticides. Something interesting that the group learned about pesticides - more often people get sick from E. coli on fruits and veggies from natural fertilizers (organic or otherwise) than from trace pesticides, so be sure to always wash your produce but organic doesn't always mean it's safer than non-organic! They also enjoyed a local lunch with an awesome centrepiece, pictured below. Comment and let us know what you did to celebrate Local Food Week! In April, Ontario put out a request for public input in building a Food Security Strategy for Ontario. In response, OHEA formed a committee to provide feedback. A special thank you is extended to committee members who volunteered their time and expertise on behalf of the organization - Cailin Whincop, P.H.Ec. & Co-Chair, Marie Traynor, P.H.Ec. & Co-Chair, Peggy O'Neil, P.H.Ec., & Joan Ttooulias, P.H.Ec. The committee also collected feedback via email from other PHEc's and ensured all voices of OHEA were heard. Feedback was submitted on May 31st, and we are waiting to hear back from the Ontario Government this summer about the collective feedback they received. To read the official response submitted by OHEA, click HERE! We are proud to be promoting food safety via our social media platforms in conjunction with The Canadian Partnership for Consumer Food Safety Education (CPFCFSE). We would like to hear tips from our members and share them in order to communicate and educate consumers about food safe practices.
Please click here and scroll down the page to see some of the most recent contributions made to get an idea of tips that other people are sharing. We would like to have at least 3 tips each month from OHEA members to share, so please help us reach this goal! All you have to do is submit an original photo and a brief description of unique food safety tips you may have, or a brief description of what food safety means to you. If you have an idea but no photo let us know and we can help you out. If you have any questions, please contact Jason Eaton: jason@ohea.on.ca.
She works as a chef, recipe developer, and teaches cooking classes. Tamara also has experience working in marketing, communications, and social media strategy.
She has a passion for cooking, nutrition communication, health, and everything in between, and she is eager to share her knowledge and experience in her new role as OHEA’s Digital Marketing Coordinator. In her spare time, you can find Tamara checking out new places to eat, cooking up a storm, food styling and capturing photos. You can check her out on Instagram @theculinarynutritionist. Questions, comments and Content for the website, newsletter or social media can be sent directly to Tamara at: tamara@ohea.on.ca. OHEA members we want YOU, and your culinary skills! We are now accepting spring recipe submissions with an original photo for a chance to be featured on our social media feeds and our blog. It’s that simple, just submit your recipe in a word document format below! If you have any questions, feel free to send them to tamara@ohea.on.ca. We are looking forward to seeing, and sharing all your delicious creations!
OHEA members were encouraged to bring feminine hygiene products to #OHEA2017 to help support Tampon Tuesday. We were very touched by the positive response and would like to thank all conference delegates for their generous donations.
On March 29th, OHEA President Cindy Hartman, P.H.Ec., delivered two large boxes full of feminine hygiene products to the London Food Bank on behalf of OHEA.
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