{"id":1298,"date":"2010-03-31T17:23:18","date_gmt":"2010-03-31T17:23:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/mda\/?p=1298"},"modified":"2012-09-26T17:24:35","modified_gmt":"2012-09-26T17:24:35","slug":"training-for-poultry-and-rabbit-certification","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/mda\/press-release\/2010\/03\/31\/training-for-poultry-and-rabbit-certification\/","title":{"rendered":"Training for Poultry and Rabbit Certification"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #0000ff\"><strong><em>Farmers Must Attend Seminar to Participate in the New Program<\/em> <\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p>ANNAPOLIS, MD (March 31, 2010) \u2013 The Maryland Department of Agriculture (MDA) in conjunction with the University of Maryland will conduct training for on-farm poultry and rabbit slaughter and processing on May 6.\u00a0 This one-day workshop is mandatory for producers who want to become certified to sell their poultry and\/or rabbits at farmers\u2019 markets or to restaurants and retailers in Maryland.\u00a0 Workshop participants will learn how to recognize diseases of public health concern, basic biosecurity measures, how to write and implement basic Standard Sanitary Operating Procedures, Good Manufacturing Practices and Hazard Analysis and Critical Control Point plans, offal and waste water disposal.<br \/>\nTo become certified for off-farm sales, producers must: \u2022\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 complete the training; \u2022\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 pass a brief test at the training; \u2022\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 submit an application for certification along with a $75 annual fee; and \u2022\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 be inspected by MDA (MDA inspectors will conduct an inspection at least once per year to verify that producers are following food safety requirements).<br \/>\nTraining will be held at the Maryland Department of Agriculture in Annapolis, 50 Harry S Truman Parkway, Annapolis, MD, 8:00 a.m. \u2013 5:00 p.m.\u00a0\u00a0 The training fee is $20 and includes lunch and materials. You can register <a title=\"online\" href=\"https:\/\/mdamarketing.wufoo.com\/forms\/poultry-and-rabbit-processing-certification\">online<\/a> or call Karen Fedor at 410-841-5773, email: fedorkm@mda.state.md.us or click <a title=\"here\" href=\"http:\/\/www.mda.state.md.us\/pdf\/poultryrabbitwkshp.pdf\">here<\/a> to download a copy of the registration form. Space is limited, so register early.<br \/>\n# # #<br \/>\nFollow MDA on Twitter <a title=\"@MdAgDept\" href=\"http:\/\/www.twitter.com\/MdAgDept\">@MdAgDept<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Farmers Must Attend Seminar to Participate in the New Program ANNAPOLIS, MD (March 31, 2010) \u2013 The Maryland Department of Agriculture (MDA) in conjunction with the University of Maryland will conduct training for on-farm poultry and rabbit slaughter and processing on May 6.\u00a0 This one-day workshop is mandatory for producers who want to become certified<a href=\"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/mda\/press-release\/2010\/03\/31\/training-for-poultry-and-rabbit-certification\/\">&nbsp;&nbsp;Read the Rest&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":30,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1298","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-press-release"],"acf":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/mda\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1298","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/mda\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/mda\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/mda\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/30"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/mda\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1298"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/mda\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1298\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1299,"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/mda\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1298\/revisions\/1299"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/mda\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1298"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/mda\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1298"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/mda\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1298"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}