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The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) launched targeted outreach to remind leaders and workers in the food and agriculture...
Nov 24, 2020
The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) has released the next National Action Plan for Combating Antibiotic-Resistant...
Oct 09, 2020 | Kim Rodgers
Why would an environmental health division’s food safety regulatory program be interested in discounting license fees for food waste...
Aug 13, 2020 | Guest Author
CDC’s Division of Foodborne, Waterborne, and Environmental Diseases has produced a new video series, “Was It Something I Ate?,” which...
Feb 19, 2020 | Michelle Shapiro
A new report is available from the National Antimicrobial Resistance Monitoring System (NARMS) for enteric bacteria. The 2016-2017...
Jan 02, 2020 | Michelle Shapiro
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has established a Food Safety Dashboard designed to track the impact of the seven...
Oct 01, 2019 | Michelle Shapiro
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
This initiative will be a multi-year study which will focus on how these pathogens survive, move and possibly contaminate produce...
By Centers for Disease Control and Prevention/Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry Communities demand action and answers...
Aug 29, 2019 | Michelle Shapiro
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) launched targeted outreach to remind leaders and workers in the food and agriculture sectors about the importance of getting their seasonal flu shots.
The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) has released the next National Action Plan for Combating Antibiotic-Resistant Bacteria (CARB), 2020-2025, which presents coordinated, strategic actions that the United States Government will take in the next five years to improve the health and wellbeing of all Americans by changing the course of antibiotic resistance.
Why would an environmental health division’s food safety regulatory program be interested in discounting license fees for food waste diversion activities? Food waste diversion can reduce food insecurity by redirecting food to combat hunger locally.
CDC’s Division of Foodborne, Waterborne, and Environmental Diseases has produced a new video series, “Was It Something I Ate?,” which presents stories of people who developed serious enteric (intestinal) infections from food or animal contact. The stories are from families with children who developed Salmonella infection from eating contaminated chicken or contact with backyard poultry, […]
A new report is available from the National Antimicrobial Resistance Monitoring System (NARMS) for enteric bacteria. The 2016-2017 NARMS Integrated Summary was released by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration with its NARMS partners, CDC and the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Food Safety and Inspection Service. The report’s new streamlined format will enable NARMS partners […]
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has established a Food Safety Dashboard designed to track the impact of the seven foundational rules of the FDA Food Safety Modernization Act (FSMA), measure their progress, and help us continue to refine our implementation.
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.
This initiative will be a multi-year study which will focus on how these pathogens survive, move and possibly contaminate produce prior to harvest.
By Centers for Disease Control and Prevention/Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry Communities demand action and answers when their drinking water contains the potentially harmful, man-made chemicals per-and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS). Although use of some of these chemicals has declined, increased water sampling over the past 10 years has revealed PFAS in numerous water...
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