The Essential Elements of Local Public Health provides updates and information from NACCHO’s Environmental Health and Infectious Disease portfolios.
According to CBS News, scientists at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology are working to build a portable device that will detect...
Feb 22, 2019 | Michelle Shapiro
This ECHO series has been designed to encourage foodborne epidemiologists to take advantage of a variety of data and tools available...
Feb 20, 2019 | Michelle Shapiro
The U.S. Food & Drug Administration’s (FDA’s) Voluntary National Retail Food Regulatory Program Standards (Retail Program...
Feb 19, 2019 | Michelle Shapiro
Calling all health communicators! Looking to improve your engagement with journalists in print, television, radio & digital media?...
Jan 31, 2019 | Michelle Shapiro
An article in Food Safety News looks at the effectiveness of using online review sites like Yelp to predict food safety non-compliance...
Jan 28, 2019 | Michelle Shapiro
Navigating a Foodborne Outbreak: Preparation for Interprofessional Practice is a self-paced, interactive learning module from...
ESPN’s Outside the Lines reviewed more than 16,000 food safety inspection reports from 2016-2017 from the local health...
The National Environmental Health Association (NEHA), in conjunction with the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), will...
Jan 14, 2019 | Michelle Shapiro
This post is part of NACCHO’s Retail Program Standards blog series showcasing the progress that communities across the country have...
Jan 10, 2019 | Michelle Shapiro
According to CBS News, scientists at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology are working to build a portable device that will detect specific contaminants in products like milk and alcohol and then transmit that information to an app. While the technology is still in early stages of development, the scientists hope it could be in consumers’ hands […]
This ECHO series has been designed to encourage foodborne epidemiologists to take advantage of a variety of data and tools available to them when generating a hypothesis for an outbreak detected through pathogen-based surveillance. In the four, 1-hour sessions, foodborne epidemiologists will engage with peers and experts as they are encouraged to utilize a variety […]
The U.S. Food & Drug Administration’s (FDA’s) Voluntary National Retail Food Regulatory Program Standards (Retail Program Standards) are designed to help food regulatory programs enhance the services they provide to the public. This post is part of NACCHO’s Retail Program Standards blog series showcasing the progress that communities across the country have made in retail […]
Calling all health communicators! Looking to improve your engagement with journalists in print, television, radio & digital media? USDA/FSIS and the non-profit Partnership for Food Safety Education are partnering to offer an intensive small group media training for health and food safety communicators to help them more effectively engage with the media. BAC Fighter Media […]
An article in Food Safety News looks at the effectiveness of using online review sites like Yelp to predict food safety non-compliance in restaurants. The article says that reviews can be unreliable indicators because people often attribute their foodborne illness to the last place they ate (even though the foodborne illness incubation period is usually […]
Navigating a Foodborne Outbreak: Preparation for Interprofessional Practice is a self-paced, interactive learning module from CDC’s Academic Partnerships to Improve Health that demonstrates the importance of interprofessional practice among health professionals to improve and protect population health in the context of a foodborne outbreak. The module will take approximately 90 minutes-two...
ESPN’s Outside the Lines reviewed more than 16,000 food safety inspection reports from 2016-2017 from the local health departments that monitor the 111 professional football, baseball, basketball and hockey facilities across North America. At least half of the food service outlets at about 28 percent of the venues incurred one or more high-level violation; these […]
The National Environmental Health Association (NEHA), in conjunction with the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), will offer mini-grants, between $1,200 to $3,000 depending on number of applicants, to support state, tribal, local or territorial governmental food safety programs to learn more about the National Environmental Assessment Reporting System (NEARS) program. NEARS is a...
This post is part of NACCHO’s Retail Program Standards blog series showcasing the progress that communities across the country have made in retail food protection. Each month, we are featuring the experiences, challenges, and successes of jurisdictions that have worked toward each of the U.S. Food & Drug Administration’s (FDA’s) Voluntary National Retail Food Regulatory […]
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