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The Integrated Foodborne Outbreak Response and Management (InFORM) conference will be in Atlanta on March 9–12, 2020. InFORM brings...
Jul 30, 2019 | Michelle Shapiro
On June 24, 2019, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration issued draft guidance to provide recommendations to those in the sprout seed...
Jul 01, 2019 | Michelle Shapiro
Adoption of the FDA Food Code by state and territorial authorities with responsibility for regulating foodservice and retail food...
Jun 20, 2019 | Michelle Shapiro
The Integrated Food Safety Centers of Excellence (CoE) have developed competencies for public health professionals who investigate...
A recent article in Food Safety Magazine describes the daily efforts of state and local environmental public health officials to...
May 06, 2019 | Michelle Shapiro
The skills needed to investigate outbreaks of foodborne illness in restaurants are different from those needed to inspect restaurants....
Most foodborne outbreaks occur in retail food establishments like restaurants. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)...
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
As expected, 2018 was another busy year in emerging infectious diseases at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). To...
Mar 05, 2019 | Kim Rodgers
The Integrated Foodborne Outbreak Response and Management (InFORM) conference will be in Atlanta on March 9–12, 2020. InFORM brings together the network of public health officials involved with foodborne and enteric disease outbreak response. Abstract submissions are now open through Sept. 15, 2019. Suggested environmental health topics include: Case studies and cross-cutting outbreaks...
On June 24, 2019, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration issued draft guidance to provide recommendations to those in the sprout seed industry to help reduce food safety hazards in the production of seed used for sprouting. Between January 1996 and August 2018, contaminated sprouts were associated with 50 outbreaks, which together resulted in more […]
Adoption of the FDA Food Code by state and territorial authorities with responsibility for regulating foodservice and retail food stores has been a goal of the FDA since the inception of the FDA Retail Food Safety Initiative. Adoption of the Food Code represents a successful federal/state partnership for improving food safety. The Food Code establishes […]
The Integrated Food Safety Centers of Excellence (CoE) have developed competencies for public health professionals who investigate foodborne outbreaks. They invite you to participate in this short survey to evaluate the competencies, which will help guide the future development of CoE trainings and curricula. They are currently seeking feedback from environmental health professionals and...
A recent article in Food Safety Magazine describes the daily efforts of state and local environmental public health officials to investigate localized foodborne illness outbreaks. While these smaller outbreaks do not always garner significant media attention, investigating them is still very important to keeping communities safe and healthy. Many health officials are pioneering innovative...
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 foodborne outbreaks occur in retail food establishments like restaurants. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) looked at 403 foodborne outbreaks reported to CDC’s National Environmental Assessment Reporting System (NEARS). An environmental assessment is an important part of outbreak investigations. It can determine how and why germs got into the environment and spread...
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 […]
As expected, 2018 was another busy year in emerging infectious diseases at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). To reflect, the National Center for Emerging and Zoonotic Infectious Diseases (NCEZID) recently released the 2018 Accomplishments Report. This report describes the important work of NCEZID over the past year, none of which would have […]
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