In January, Rob Maddock, associate professor of animal sciences, spent two weeks in Ethiopia teaching hazard analysis critical control point and food safety systems to government employees and private businesses. The class was conducted as a train-the-trainer exercise, with the intent the participants would be able to help Ethiopian meat processors update and develop hazard analysis critical control point plans.

The plans were reviewed for private meat processing companies. A complete hazard analysis critical control point course was taught at the Ethiopia Meat and Dairy Technical Institute, which is an institute of the Ethiopian government and acts much like the U.S. Extension Service, according to Maddock. The institute provides technical assistance to livestock and dairy producers and meat processors from a research center located in Debre Zeit.

Maddock went as a volunteer with the Winrock Foundation as part of a project with the U.S. Agency for International Development.

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