The Essential Elements of Local Public Health provides updates and information from NACCHO’s Environmental Health and Infectious Disease portfolios.
Under the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) Food Safety Modernization Act (FSMA), small businesses may be eligible for certain...
Mar 23, 2018 | Alex Fraser
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) launched NORS Dashboard, an online data tool with public access to nearly 20...
Mar 14, 2018 | Michelle Shapiro
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration issued the 2017 edition of the Voluntary National Retail Food Regulatory Program Standards...
Mar 07, 2018 | Michelle Shapiro
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) released two continuing medical education videos for physicians about foodborne illness....
Mar 05, 2018 | Michelle Shapiro
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) released several guidance documents related to the Nutrition Facts label final rule,...
The FDA, CDC, and state and local officials investigated a multi-state outbreak of Salmonella infections. CDC reports that...
The February/March 2018 edition of the Food Safety Magazine is now available online. This issue includes articles and columns on...
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has updated their 2013 risk profile on pathogens and filth in spices. The update includes data...
Feb 28, 2018 | Amy Chang
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has begun to test fresh cilantro, parsley and basil, as well as processed avocado and...
Feb 27, 2018 | Amy Chang
Under the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) Food Safety Modernization Act (FSMA), small businesses may be eligible for certain exemptions and later deadlines for compliance on the Preventive Controls for Human Food and Animal Food regulations. On March 19th, a new draft was released by the FDA to address common questions businesses may have when determining […]
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) launched NORS Dashboard, an online data tool with public access to nearly 20 years of information on foodborne, waterborne, and other enteric (intestinal) disease outbreaks. Information in the NORS Dashboard comes from the National Outbreak Reporting System (NORS). Users can search outbreak data, display information on interactive […]
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration issued the 2017 edition of the Voluntary National Retail Food Regulatory Program Standards (Retail Program Standards), which define the key elements of an effective retail food regulatory program for state, local, tribal, and territorial food regulatory agencies. The Retail Program Standards provide recommendations for designing and managing these retail...
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) released two continuing medical education videos for physicians about foodborne illness. One video shares four steps for dealing with symptoms that may indicate foodborne illness: suspect, identify, treat, and report. The other video provides advice on educating people at greater risk of serious illness from foodborne illness on […]
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) released several guidance documents related to the Nutrition Facts label final rule, including a final guidance explaining how the FDA evaluates the scientific evidence supporting citizen petitions to add certain isolated or synthetic non-digestible carbohydrates to the regulatory definition of dietary fiber. This final science review guidance will...
The FDA, CDC, and state and local officials investigated a multi-state outbreak of Salmonella infections. CDC reports that epidemiologic evidence indicates that raw sprouts were the likely source of this outbreak. The FDA collected invoices and/or samples from growers and seed suppliers that produced the sprouts. All the samples that were collected subsequently tested negative. […]
The February/March 2018 edition of the Food Safety Magazine is now available online. This issue includes articles and columns on social responsibility, sprout safety, supply chain, allergen control, and more. Read the issue here.
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has updated their 2013 risk profile on pathogens and filth in spices. The update includes data that shows the prevalence of Salmonella in nine out of 11 types of retail spices in the U.S. was significantly lower than imported spices. Learn more about the key findings here.
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has begun to test fresh cilantro, parsley and basil, as well as processed avocado and guacamole, for certain microbial contaminants. The sampling will help the FDA assess the rates of bacterial contamination in these items to help identify possible common factors among the positive samples. These items were […]
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