The Essential Elements of Local Public Health provides updates and information from NACCHO’s Environmental Health and Infectious Disease portfolios.
The skills needed to investigate outbreaks of foodborne illness in restaurants are different from those needed to inspect restaurants....
May 06, 2019 | Michelle Shapiro
Most reported foodborne outbreaks occur in retail food establishments like restaurants. A recent MMWR said that from 2014 to 2016, 16...
Mar 28, 2019 | Michelle Shapiro
Thorough analysis of foodborne outbreaks and other incidents is fundamental to identifying preventive measures that can reduce...
Feb 27, 2019 | Michelle Shapiro
State and local public health departments report hundreds of foodborne illness outbreaks each year to CDC and are primarily...
Feb 22, 2019 | Michelle Shapiro
The U.S. Food & Drug Administration’s (FDA’s) Voluntary National Retail Food Regulatory Program Standards (Retail Program...
Feb 19, 2019 | Michelle Shapiro
The National Environmental Health Association (NEHA), in conjunction with the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), will...
Jan 14, 2019 | Michelle Shapiro
The National Environmental Health Association (NEHA), with support from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), is...
Dec 28, 2018 | Michelle Shapiro
The Tennessee Integrated Food Safety Center of Excellence (TN CoE) is offering free, online, and self-paced training courses focused...
Oct 16, 2018 | Michelle Shapiro
By Dede Vilven, Enteric Epidemiologist, Salt Lake County Health Department (SLCoHD) The Salt Lake County Health Department (SLCoHD)...
Sep 24, 2018 | Michelle Shapiro
The skills needed to investigate outbreaks of foodborne illness in restaurants are different from those needed to inspect restaurants. It is critical to have environmental health staff on outbreak investigation teams. The CDC’s Environmental Assessment Training Series (EATS) provides training on the role of environmental assessments in the broader context of outbreak investigations and the...
Most reported foodborne outbreaks occur in retail food establishments like restaurants. A recent MMWR said that from 2014 to 2016, 16 state and local public health departments reported 404 of these kinds of outbreaks to CDC’s National Environmental Assessment Reporting System (NEARS). Most of the outbreaks were of viral illnesses, such as norovirus. This is […]
Thorough analysis of foodborne outbreaks and other incidents is fundamental to identifying preventive measures that can reduce contamination risks and human illnesses. However, root cause analysis remains an underutilized tool. Individual companies and food safety agencies vary widely in when and how they conduct root cause analysis, in part because they lack shared definitions and […]
State and local public health departments report hundreds of foodborne illness outbreaks each year to CDC and are primarily responsible for investigations of these outbreaks. Typically, investigations involve epidemiology, laboratory, and environmental health components. Health departments voluntarily report epidemiologic and laboratory data from their foodborne illness outbreak investigations to...
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 […]
The National Environmental Health Association (NEHA), in conjunction with the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), will offer mini-grants, between $1,200 to $3,000 depending on number of applicants, to support state, tribal, local or territorial governmental food safety programs to learn more about the National Environmental Assessment Reporting System (NEARS) program. NEARS is a...
The National Environmental Health Association (NEHA), with support from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), is pleased to announce a call for applications for a new funding opportunity with the National Environmental Assessment Reporting System (NEARS), which is a surveillance system that captures environmental assessment data from foodborne illness outbreak investigations in...
The Tennessee Integrated Food Safety Center of Excellence (TN CoE) is offering free, online, and self-paced training courses focused on foodborne outbreak investigations. In collaboration with the TN CoE, the Center for Agriculture and Food Security and Preparedness (CAFSP) at the University of Tennessee has produced a series of CDC-funded online training courses focused on […]
By Dede Vilven, Enteric Epidemiologist, Salt Lake County Health Department (SLCoHD) The Salt Lake County Health Department (SLCoHD) serves approximately 1.1 million people in the greater Salt Lake City area. To keep the population safe and healthy, SLCoHD epidemiology staff review and analyze several data streams to identify the cause of foodborne illness outbreaks, as seen […]
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