Food Safety Mentorship

This document provides sample language, formatting ideas, and chart/table examples to assist state, local, tribal, and territorial (SLTT) retail food safety regulators in writing their FDA Retail Program Standard 9 Risk Factor Study Reports. This template, attached in both Word and PDF, is intended as a non-prescriptive resource offering examples for those who are new to writing a Risk Factor Study Report. Jurisdictions are encouraged to use all or part of this document and customize it to meet the needs of your jurisdiction. The template guide was put together from Risk Factor Study reports authored by the contributing health departments.