The Essential Elements of Local Public Health provides updates and information from NACCHO’s Environmental Health and Infectious Disease portfolios.
CDC, public health and regulatory officials in several states, and the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Food Safety and Inspection...
Nov 04, 2019 | Michelle Shapiro
In an ongoing effort to understand sources of foodborne illness in the United States, the Interagency Food Safety Analytics...
In 2017, 841 foodborne disease outbreaks were reported to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), according to a...
Sep 27, 2019 | Michelle Shapiro
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has released the results of a sampling assignment that tested romaine lettuce grown in the Yuma,...
Aug 28, 2019 | Michelle Shapiro
An investigation into an emerging strain of multidrug-resistant Salmonella Newport that was linked to beef obtained in the United...
Aug 23, 2019 | Michelle Shapiro
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and its public health partners in all 50 states are tracking and classifying...
Aug 01, 2019 | Michelle Shapiro
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), other federal agencies, and state partners are investigating a multistate...
Mar 25, 2019 | Michelle Shapiro
The Association of Public Health Laboratories (APHL) received a letter from CDC’s Enteric Diseases Laboratory Branch (EDLB)...
Jan 03, 2019 | Michelle Shapiro
The Oregon Health Authority created a parody “Salmonella” Twitter account to raise awareness of foodborne illness and...
Dec 17, 2018 | Michelle Shapiro
CDC, public health and regulatory officials in several states, and the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Food Safety and Inspection Service (USDA-FSIS) are investigating a multistate outbreak of Salmonella Dublin infections linked to ground beef. A single, common supplier of ground beef has not been identified. This investigation is ongoing and CDC will update the public as more […]
In an ongoing effort to understand sources of foodborne illness in the United States, the Interagency Food Safety Analytics Collaboration (IFSAC) collects and analyzes outbreak data to produce an annual report with estimates of foods responsible for foodborne illnesses caused by pathogens. The report estimates the degree to which four pathogens – Salmonella, E. coli […]
In 2017, 841 foodborne disease outbreaks were reported to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), according to a recently released annual summary from the Foodborne Disease Outbreak Surveillance System.
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has released the results of a sampling assignment that tested romaine lettuce grown in the Yuma, AZ agricultural region for pathogenic Shiga toxin-producing Escherichia coli (STEC) and Salmonella spp. View the Summary Report: FY19 Sampling of Romaine Lettuce at Commercial Coolers in Yuma, Arizona. View the Environmental Assessment of […]
An investigation into an emerging strain of multidrug-resistant Salmonella Newport that was linked to beef obtained in the United States and soft cheese (likely unpasteurized) from Mexico is described in the August 23 issue of CDC’s Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report. During June 2018–March 2019, CDC identified 255 people from 32 U.S. states who were […]
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and its public health partners in all 50 states are tracking and classifying foodborne illness in a new way, using advanced technology called whole genome sequencing (WGS) to detect and stop outbreaks and combat drug-resistant bacteria. PulseNet, the national network of laboratories that detects outbreaks of foodborne […]
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), other federal agencies, and state partners are investigating a multistate outbreak linked to ground turkey products produced by Butterball, LLC. Six people from three states have been infected with Salmonella Schwarzengrund linked to Butterball brand ground turkey. Butterball recalled more than 78,000 pounds of ground turkey products […]
The Association of Public Health Laboratories (APHL) received a letter from CDC’s Enteric Diseases Laboratory Branch (EDLB) regarding the following updates and modifications to the timeline for implementation of whole genome sequencing (WGS) for PulseNet. Updates: As of January 3, 2019, up to 24 laboratories have either started the process or have finished the BioNumerics […]
The Oregon Health Authority created a parody “Salmonella” Twitter account to raise awareness of foodborne illness and share food poisoning prevention messages with households across the state. The account posts tongue-in-cheek tweets from the point of view of Salmonella. Here are some examples: “People often associate me with meat and eggs, but I’m an equal […]
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