The Essential Elements of Local Public Health provides updates and information from NACCHO’s Environmental Health and Infectious Disease portfolios.
The U.S. Food & Drug Administration’s (FDA’s) Voluntary National Retail Food Regulatory Program Standards (Retail Program...
Dec 18, 2018 | Michelle Shapiro
The Interagency Food Safety Analytics Collaboration (IFSAC) released a report on updated foodborne illness source attribution...
Nov 21, 2018 | Michelle Shapiro
Note: This is the fourth edition of NACCHO’s Greener Guidance environmental health advice column. See past columns here. Submit a...
Nov 08, 2018 | Michelle Shapiro
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration announced today that it will hold four one-day public meetings to discuss the recently published...
Nov 05, 2018 | Michelle Shapiro
In October 2018, NACCHO’s Board of Directors approved a new policy statement on Concentrated Animal Feeding Operations (CAFOs) in...
Note: This was originally posted on the Healthy Places by Design blog. By Tim Schwantes, Project Officer, Healthy Places by Design...
Oct 24, 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
Please see the statement below from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration: Among those in Hurricane Michael’s path in the...
Oct 11, 2018 | Michelle Shapiro
The University of Tennessee’s Center for Agriculture and Food Security and Preparedness developed a Cultural Food Safety app...
Sep 04, 2018 | Michelle Shapiro
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 Interagency Food Safety Analytics Collaboration (IFSAC) released a report on updated foodborne illness source attribution estimates using multi-year outbreak surveillance data. The authors used outbreak data to produce new estimates for foods responsible for foodborne illnesses caused by four pathogens in 2016. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) estimates that, together,...
Note: This is the fourth edition of NACCHO’s Greener Guidance environmental health advice column. See past columns here. Submit a question here. November 2018 Dear Greener Guidance, I am working on revising our local health department cemetery guidelines to include green burials. I wondered if any other health department in the country has any “best practices” […]
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration announced today that it will hold four one-day public meetings to discuss the recently published draft guidance created to help farmers meet the requirements of the Produce Safety Rule. The draft guidance, entitled “Standards for the Growing, Harvesting, Packing, and Holding of Produce for Human Consumption: Draft Guidance for […]
In October 2018, NACCHO’s Board of Directors approved a new policy statement on Concentrated Animal Feeding Operations (CAFOs) in response to concerns from local health departments. CAFOs are animal feeding operations with more than 1,000 animal units (e.g., 1,000 head of beef cattle, 700 dairy cows, 2,500 swine >55 lbs., 125,000 broiler chickens, or 82,000 […]
Note: This was originally posted on the Healthy Places by Design blog. By Tim Schwantes, Project Officer, Healthy Places by Design During a time when public confidence in government is low, six municipalities in Wake County, NC, have demonstrated that local governments can still have a profound effect on their communities’ health. In fact, healthy […]
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 […]
Please see the statement below from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration: Among those in Hurricane Michael’s path in the Southeast U.S. are farmers and their fields of crops grown for human consumption. The U.S. Food and Drug Administration’s Center for Food Safety and Applied Nutrition has several resources to help growers who may be […]
The University of Tennessee’s Center for Agriculture and Food Security and Preparedness developed a Cultural Food Safety app meant for federal, state, tribal, territorial, and local food regulatory officials. The app offers searchable information on food safety issues and control measures associated with specific cultural foods. It is organized by regions of the world, religion, and...
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