Consumer Food-Safety Outreach
If you have a food safety, food preparation or preservation, or nutrition question contact Margaret Viebrock at (509) 745-8531

Nutrition in Me!
Nutrition in Me is a six week program that helps elementary students learn how to make healthy lifestyle choices. This program is offered to 3rd graders in Omak, Okanogan, Bridgeport, Pateros, Tonasket, Oroville, Pascal Sherman, and Brewster schools. Students learn a variety of things from accurate food servings to hand washing.

Third graders at Tonasket School learn the proper way to wash their hands. During this lesson, students first put Litter Bug Lotion on their hands to symbolize germs, and put them under a black light in the view box. White sparkles show up, indicating their hands have germs on them. Students then wash their hands with soap and warm water and try the experiment again. The amount of white sparkles show how well they washed their hands. This lesson is important to teach them how to reduce the risk of communicable disease.

Food Safety Advisor Program
The Food Safety Advisor program is a volunteer program designed to provide in-depth food safety, food preservation and nutrition training. Participants receive 45 hours of subject matter and teaching methodology training. In return, volunteers commit to a minimum of 50 hours of volunteer service. Contact Margaret Viebrock at 509-745-8531 for more info.

Trained volunteers help consumers with information on:

• Safe food handling practices
• Basic understanding and prevention of food borne diseases
• Researched, safe home food preservation techniques
• Dietary guidelines
• Nutrition and health issues
• Quick and easy meal preparation classes

Audiences include:

• Community groups
• Young parents
• Teenagers
• Seniors
• Children

Outreach methods used:

• Booth at fairs, farmer's markets, and other community events
• Classes for community groups
• News releases
• Food preservation and nutrition classes