The Essential Elements of Local Public Health provides updates and information from NACCHO’s Environmental Health and Infectious Disease portfolios.
The Integrated Foodborne Outbreak Response and Management (InFORM) Conference will take place March 9-12, 2020, in Atlanta, GA. This...
Oct 22, 2019 | Michelle Shapiro
This initiative will be a multi-year study which will focus on how these pathogens survive, move and possibly contaminate produce...
Sep 27, 2019 | Michelle Shapiro
In response to three significant foodborne illness outbreaks that affected the City’s Latino and Somali communities in 2013, MEH...
Sep 18, 2019 | Michelle Shapiro
Foodborne illness is nearly always preventable, yet according to estimates from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC),...
Sep 03, 2019 | Michelle Shapiro
As expected, 2018 was another busy year in emerging infectious diseases at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). To...
Mar 05, 2019 | Kim Rodgers
The U.S. Food & Drug Administration’s (FDA’s) Voluntary National Retail Food Regulatory Program Standards (Retail Program...
Feb 19, 2019 | Michelle Shapiro
This post is part of NACCHO’s Retail Program Standards blog series showcasing the progress that communities across the country have...
Jan 10, 2019 | Michelle Shapiro
The United States Department of Agriculture Food Safety and Inspection Service (FSIS) developed a recommended template that may be...
Dec 28, 2018 | Michelle Shapiro
Dec 18, 2018 | Michelle Shapiro
The Integrated Foodborne Outbreak Response and Management (InFORM) Conference will take place March 9-12, 2020, in Atlanta, GA. This meeting will bring together laboratorians, epidemiologists, and environmental health specialists involved with foodborne and enteric disease outbreak response.
This initiative will be a multi-year study which will focus on how these pathogens survive, move and possibly contaminate produce prior to harvest.
In response to three significant foodborne illness outbreaks that affected the City’s Latino and Somali communities in 2013, MEH developed Somali language Certified Food Protection Manager Training (CFPM) and a Latino Food Service Worker training.
Foodborne illness is nearly always preventable, yet according to estimates from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), one in six Americans gets sick from contaminated food or beverages every year, and 3,000 die.
As expected, 2018 was another busy year in emerging infectious diseases at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). To reflect, the National Center for Emerging and Zoonotic Infectious Diseases (NCEZID) recently released the 2018 Accomplishments Report. This report describes the important work of NCEZID over the past year, none of which would have […]
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. This post is part of NACCHO’s Retail Program Standards blog series showcasing the progress that communities across the country have made in retail […]
This post is part of NACCHO’s Retail Program Standards blog series showcasing the progress that communities across the country have made in retail food protection. Each month, we are featuring the experiences, challenges, and successes of jurisdictions that have worked toward each of the U.S. Food & Drug Administration’s (FDA’s) Voluntary National Retail Food Regulatory […]
The United States Department of Agriculture Food Safety and Inspection Service (FSIS) developed a recommended template that may be adapted by public health partners (e.g., state health and agriculture departments) for including FSIS in foodborne illness outbreak response procedures. View the template.
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