The Essential Elements of Local Public Health provides updates and information from NACCHO’s Environmental Health and Infectious Disease portfolios.
NACCHO released a Health in All Policies success story from the Louisville Metro Department of Public Health and Wellness. The...
Oct 09, 2019 | Michelle Shapiro
The EHTER Ops training is a four-day course that provides participants with the operations-level knowledge and skills needed to...
Oct 01, 2019 | Michelle Shapiro
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has established a Food Safety Dashboard designed to track the impact of the seven...
Starting in late 2016, communities across the United States began reporting a surge in cases of hepatitis A—with more than 22,000...
Sep 30, 2019 | Michelle Shapiro
Individuals infected with hepatitis A who work in food establishments can spread it to customers and other employees. Although...
A new report published in Pediatrics describes a 2017 outbreak investigation of E. coli O157:H7 infections that sickened 32 people,...
Sep 27, 2019 | Michelle Shapiro
Eastern equine encephalitis virus (EEEV) is a mosquito-borne virus that is rarely seen in humans.
Sep 27, 2019 | Kim Rodgers
In 2017, 841 foodborne disease outbreaks were reported to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), according to a...
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has launched an updated version of the Food Defense Plan Builder (FDPB) to help companies meet...
NACCHO released a Health in All Policies success story from the Louisville Metro Department of Public Health and Wellness. The department’s Center for Health Equity recently enacted a health impact assessment (HIA) program, with the goal of informing local and state policies that affect root causes of health outcomes using HIA agency wide. Read more.
The EHTER Ops training is a four-day course that provides participants with the operations-level knowledge and skills needed to respond to incidents of natural- or human-caused disaster and to use appropriate protocols and equipment to achieve mission objectives.
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.
Starting in late 2016, communities across the United States began reporting a surge in cases of hepatitis A—with more than 22,000 cases reported nationwide by July 2019.
Individuals infected with hepatitis A who work in food establishments can spread it to customers and other employees. Although foodborne outbreaks of hepatitis A are uncommon, they can require intensive and costly public health efforts to control.
A new report published in Pediatrics describes a 2017 outbreak investigation of E. coli O157:H7 infections that sickened 32 people, primarily young children, in 12 states. Investigators identified soy nut butter as the source of the outbreak, which led to a recall of more than 1.2 million pounds of products. Quick work by public health […]
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 launched an updated version of the Food Defense Plan Builder (FDPB) to help companies meet the requirements of the Intentional Adulteration rule under the FDA Food Safety Modernization Act (FSMA).
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