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
Individuals infected with hepatitis A who work in food establishments can spread it to customers and other employees. Although...
Sep 30, 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...
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
The Minnesota Food Safety Center of Excellence has developed three new checklists for environmental health specialists. The checklists...
Aug 28, 2019 | Michelle Shapiro
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has released the results of a sampling assignment that tested romaine lettuce grown in the Yuma,...
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and its public health partners in all 50 states are tracking and classifying...
Aug 01, 2019 | 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.
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.
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.
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.
The Minnesota Food Safety Center of Excellence has developed three new checklists for environmental health specialists. The checklists provide guidance for EH staff responding to a suspected bacterial intoxication outbreak, a Campylobacter illness at a restaurant, and a Vibrio parahaemolyticus illness at a restaurant. They can be a useful resource for EH staff in the […]
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has released the results of a sampling assignment that tested romaine lettuce grown in the Yuma, AZ agricultural region for pathogenic Shiga toxin-producing Escherichia coli (STEC) and Salmonella spp. View the Summary Report: FY19 Sampling of Romaine Lettuce at Commercial Coolers in Yuma, Arizona. View the Environmental Assessment of […]
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and its public health partners in all 50 states are tracking and classifying foodborne illness in a new way, using advanced technology called whole genome sequencing (WGS) to detect and stop outbreaks and combat drug-resistant bacteria. PulseNet, the national network of laboratories that detects outbreaks of foodborne […]
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