The Essential Elements of Local Public Health provides updates and information from NACCHO’s Environmental Health and Infectious Disease portfolios.
The USDA Food Safety and Inspection Service (FSIS) is collecting information from stakeholders from industry, state and public health...
Nov 26, 2018 | Michelle Shapiro
The Interagency Food Safety Analytics Collaboration (IFSAC) released a report on updated foodborne illness source attribution...
Nov 21, 2018 | Michelle Shapiro
The U.S. Food & Drug Administration’s (FDA’s) Voluntary National Retail Food Regulatory Program Standards (Retail Program...
Nov 20, 2018 | Michelle Shapiro
Two Joint PulseNet/OutbreakNet Regional Meetings will be held in 2019: West Coast: February 5-7, 2019 in San Diego, CA Central: March...
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is investigating the manufacturing facility that made recalled Duncan Hines cake mixes....
Nov 06, 2018 | Michelle Shapiro
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has released a final guidance regarding the agency’s mandatory recall authority under the...
U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) Commissioner Scott Gottlieb, M.D. released the following statement: Earlier this year, we...
Nov 05, 2018 | Michelle Shapiro
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration announced today that it will hold four one-day public meetings to discuss the recently published...
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) issued one draft and one final guidance on various topics related to the two final rules...
The USDA Food Safety and Inspection Service (FSIS) is collecting information from stakeholders from industry, state and public health and agriculture departments with responsibilities for retail food safety, local health departments, and grocers to gather information on FSIS outreach efforts related to retail best practices to control Listeria monocytogenes (Lm) in retail delicatessens. The...
The Interagency Food Safety Analytics Collaboration (IFSAC) released a report on updated foodborne illness source attribution estimates using multi-year outbreak surveillance data. The authors used outbreak data to produce new estimates for foods responsible for foodborne illnesses caused by four pathogens in 2016. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) estimates that, together,...
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. Since August, NACCHO has been showcasing the progress that communities across the country have made in retail food protection through the Retail Program […]
Two Joint PulseNet/OutbreakNet Regional Meetings will be held in 2019: West Coast: February 5-7, 2019 in San Diego, CA Central: March 6-8, 2019 in Omaha, NE The meetings will bring together laboratorians, epidemiologists and environmental health specialists involved with foodborne and enteric disease outbreak response. Issues discussed will include surveillance and outbreak detection of enteric...
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is investigating the manufacturing facility that made recalled Duncan Hines cake mixes. FDA and the CDC informed Conagra Brands that a sample of Duncan Hines Classic White Cake Mix that contained Salmonella Agbeni matched the Salmonella collected from ill persons reported to the CDC. This was determined through […]
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has released a final guidance regarding the agency’s mandatory recall authority under the FDA Food Safety Modernization Act (FSMA). The 2011 food safety law gave FDA mandatory recall authority for foods if there is a reasonable probability that the food is adulterated or misbranded under certain FDA authorities, […]
U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) Commissioner Scott Gottlieb, M.D. released the following statement: Earlier this year, we experienced the largest E. coli O157:H7 outbreak the country has seen in the last decade, leaving hundreds sick and claiming the lives of five people who consumed contaminated romaine lettuce. We’re committed to taking necessary actions to prevent future […]
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration announced today that it will hold four one-day public meetings to discuss the recently published draft guidance created to help farmers meet the requirements of the Produce Safety Rule. The draft guidance, entitled “Standards for the Growing, Harvesting, Packing, and Holding of Produce for Human Consumption: Draft Guidance for […]
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) issued one draft and one final guidance on various topics related to the two final rules updating the Nutrition Facts label. The first guidance, which is draft, “Food Labeling: Serving Sizes of Foods That Can Reasonably Be Consumed At One Eating Occasion, Reference Amounts Customarily Consumed, Serving Size-Related […]
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