The Essential Elements of Local Public Health provides updates and information from NACCHO’s Environmental Health and Infectious Disease portfolios.
NACCHO’s environmental health team hosted nearly 20 webinars throughout 2019 to share the latest resources and best practices...
Dec 21, 2019 | Michelle Shapiro
The National Association of County and City Health Officials (NACCHO) has announced the ninth cohort of a mentorship program for...
Dec 17, 2019 | Michelle Shapiro
As the Integrated Food Safety Centers of Excellence enter their second five-year ELC cycle, there are some changes to our regional...
Dec 02, 2019 | Michelle Shapiro
The Issue submission process for the 2020 Biennial Meeting is now live and will remain open until 9:00 PM Eastern time on December 31,...
Washington Integrated Food Safety Center of Excellence is a collaboration between the Washington State Department of Health (DOH) and...
Whether monitoring travelers for Ebola, managing a large-scale foodborne outbreak, investigating environmental exposures, or...
Dec 02, 2019 | Christina Baum
Nominations are now being accepted for the 2020 Samuel J. Crumbine Consumer Protection Award for Excellence in Food Protection at the...
Nov 26, 2019 | Michelle Shapiro
FDA, CDC, and state health authorities are investigating an outbreak of illnesses caused by E. coli O157:H7 in the United States....
Nov 25, 2019 | Michelle Shapiro
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration’s (FDA’s) National Retail Food Team today released additional posters that will highlight retail...
NACCHO’s environmental health team hosted nearly 20 webinars throughout 2019 to share the latest resources and best practices with local health departments across the country. Explore all of the webinar recordings below, and please share them with colleagues who may be interested. Adapting to Climate Change in Local Health Departments In January 2019, NACCHO awarded […]
The National Association of County and City Health Officials (NACCHO) has announced the ninth cohort of a mentorship program for retail food regulatory programs. The program is supported by the Food and Drug Administration’s (FDA’s) Center for Food Safety and Applied Nutrition (CFSAN) and Office of Regulatory Affairs (ORA). The peer mentorship program provides an […]
As the Integrated Food Safety Centers of Excellence enter their second five-year ELC cycle, there are some changes to our regional map. If your state has been impacted by any of these changes please reach out to the program coordinator of the applicable center: Colorado – Ingrid Hewitson: [email protected] Minnesota – Joshua Rounds: [email protected] New York –...
The Issue submission process for the 2020 Biennial Meeting is now live and will remain open until 9:00 PM Eastern time on December 31, 2019. Use this link to begin the Issue submission process – http://www.foodprotect.org/issues/. On this page you will find Terms and Conditions and Guidelines for submitting Issues. In the opening paragraph on […]
Washington Integrated Food Safety Center of Excellence is a collaboration between the Washington State Department of Health (DOH) and the University of Washington (UW). Beth Melius serves as the center’s DOH co director. She has been the lead enteric disease epidemiologist in Washington since 2013. Janet Baseman, Professor of Epidemiology and Associate Dean for Public […]
Whether monitoring travelers for Ebola, managing a large-scale foodborne outbreak, investigating environmental exposures, or identifying the unknown cause of an illness, during an outbreak or event, epidemiology and infectious disease staff at local health departments (LHDs) can be stretched thin. LHDs have lost 23% of their workforce since 2008, shedding over 40,000 jobs across the country. This...
Nominations are now being accepted for the 2020 Samuel J. Crumbine Consumer Protection Award for Excellence in Food Protection at the Local Level. This award is given annually to local environmental health jurisdictions that demonstrate unsurpassed achievement in providing outstanding food protection services to their communities and highlight successful approaches to food safety that can be...
FDA, CDC, and state health authorities are investigating an outbreak of illnesses caused by E. coli O157:H7 in the United States. Epidemiologic, laboratory, and traceback evidence indicates that romaine lettuce from the Salinas, California growing region is a likely source of this outbreak. Consumers: Consumers should not eat romaine lettuce harvested from Salinas, California. Additionally,...
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration’s (FDA’s) National Retail Food Team today released additional posters that will highlight retail date marking for ready-to-eat, time/temperature control for safety food and adequate cooking temperatures for turkey and ground beef. These posters are two-sided, with English on one side and a variety of other languages, including Spanish, Russian, […]
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