For the past six years, NACCHO has worked to improve our understanding of local food safety programs in the U.S. Since 1999, funding for this endeavor has come from the National Center of Environmental Health (NCEH), and since 2001, funding has also come from the National Centers for Infectious Disease (NCID) of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
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The Council to Improve Foodborne Outbreak Response (CIFOR) is a multidisciplinary working group convened to increase collaboration across the country and across relevant areas of expertise in order to reduce the burden of foodborne illness in the United States. The Council of State and Territorial Epidemiologists (CSTE) and the National Association of County and City Health Officials (NACCHO) are co-chairing CIFOR with support from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). More » |
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NACCHO, with guidance and funding from the Food Safety Office of the Division of Bacterial and Mycotic Diseases of the National Center for Infectious Diseases of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, is undertaking a project to improve the capacity of local health departments to handle public complaints of foodborne illness, laboratory reports of foodborne enteric disease, and investigations of outbreaks of foodborne illness. |
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One of the largest gaps in local health departments' food program capacity is the need for electronic, streamlined, cost-effective management of inspections, inspection reports, and results. To address this need at the local level, NACCHO has embarked upon a collaboration with Paragon. More » |
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In October 2002, NACCHO's Food Safety Program awarded 12 local public health agencies varying grant amounts to implement innovative programs in food safety within their health departments and communities. |
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