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Last reminder to sign up by the end of day on the 18<span><sup>th</sup> if you're interested in participating in Seafood HACCP training.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">Kwamena Quagrainie (Purdue and IL IN Sea Grant), Amy Shambach (Purdue and IL IN Sea Grant), and Pratik Banerjee (Univ. of Illinois) received funding from the North Central Regional Aquaculture Center to support
the processing of seafood in the Midwest. They asked me to reach out to farmers who may be interested in participating in their project.</span><br>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">They are currently recruiting farmers who are interested in processing their seafood. They will arrange a 2-day Seafood HACCP (Hazard Analysis Critical Control Points) training for those who wish to participate.
Since it is a regional project, location of the farmers will determine how many training sessions there will be and where they will hold the trainings. Training costs will be paid by the NCRAC project.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">After the training, they would lik</span><span style="font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">e the participants to move forward with processing to develop a product. The farmers will play a key role in helping
to identify local processing facilities such as a seafood processing facility, commercial kitchen, butcher shop, restaurants, etc. who are interested in renting out space for fish processing. They will work with the farmers along the process to develop a product
and a market. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">If you are</span><span style="font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"> </span><span style="font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><strong style="box-sizing:border-box"><u style="box-sizing:border-box">highly
interested and willing to commit to the process</u></strong></span><span style="font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">, please complete
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this survey</a> by end of day February 18th, 2022. I will share the list with Kwamena and this team, and they will select the farmers who will participate.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">Please contact Kwamena (kquagrai@purdue.edu), Amy (ashambac@purdue.edu), or Pratik (pratik@illinois.edu) if you have any questions about the process.</span></div>
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