The Essential Elements of Local Public Health provides updates and information from NACCHO’s Environmental Health and Infectious Disease portfolios.
Nominations are now being accepted for the 2019 Samuel J. Crumbine Consumer Protection Award for Excellence in Food Protection at the...
Dec 04, 2018 | Michelle Shapiro
On Tuesday, November 27, 2018, NACCHO participated in a 50-state conference call held by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA)...
Nov 30, 2018 | Michelle Shapiro
A new article published in the Journal of Food Protection examines the effect of food safety management characteristics on risk factor...
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has a webpage with resources on how to protect food and water from contamination during...
More than 14,000 people in the U.S. were sickened during foodborne disease outbreaks in 2016, according to a new report from the...
A new study published in the Journal of Food Protection by researchers with the U.S. Department of Agriculture found similar levels of...
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA), along with the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), and state and local...
A study published in the Center for Disease Control and Prevention’s (CDC’s) Emerging Infectious Diseases looked at the...
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) released findings from the initial phase of a 10-year study that is evaluating trends in...
Nominations are now being accepted for the 2019 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...
On Tuesday, November 27, 2018, NACCHO participated in a 50-state conference call held by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) on the multistate outbreak of E. coli O157:H7 likely linked to romaine lettuce. For the most up-to-date information on this outbreak, visit https://www.fda.gov/Food/RecallsOutbreaksEmergencies/Outbreaks/ucm626330.htm. The Centers Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)...
A new article published in the Journal of Food Protection examines the effect of food safety management characteristics on risk factor violations cited on routine inspections. The results of the study support the recommendations of the U.S. Food and Drug Administration regarding certified food managers (CFMs); however, the findings also suggest greater complexity in the […]
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has a webpage with resources on how to protect food and water from contamination during the floods and power outages that often accompany hurricanes, tornadoes, snowstorms, etc. The resources are separated into section for before, during, and after a storm. The webpage also includes a video on food […]
More than 14,000 people in the U.S. were sickened during foodborne disease outbreaks in 2016, according to a new report from the Centers of Disease Control and Prevention (CDC); 875 of these people were hospitalized, and 17 died. The categories of food responsible for most of these illnesses were mollusks such as oysters and scallops (529 illnesses), […]
A new study published in the Journal of Food Protection by researchers with the U.S. Department of Agriculture found similar levels of antimicrobial resistance (AMR) in ground beef raised with and without antibiotics. According to the authors of the study, their findings suggest that antimicrobial use in U.S. cattle production has “minimal to no impact on AMR […]
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA), along with the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), and state and local partners, is investigating a multistate outbreak of Salmonella Concord illnesses linked to tahini imported from an Israeli manufacturer, Achdut Ltd., located in Ari’el, Israel. Achdut Ltd. has voluntarily recalled all brands of tahini products manufactured from...
A study published in the Center for Disease Control and Prevention’s (CDC’s) Emerging Infectious Diseases looked at the effect of posting letter grades for restaurant inspections on the incidence of foodborne illness. The researchers compared Salmonella infection rates in New York City with those in the rest of New York state before and after implementation of a letter […]
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) released findings from the initial phase of a 10-year study that is evaluating trends in food preparation practices and employee behaviors that contribute to foodborne illness outbreaks in the retail setting. Data from this study are meant to provide valuable insights for restaurant management to address and reduce common unsafe […]
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