The Essential Elements of Local Public Health provides updates and information from NACCHO’s Environmental Health and Infectious Disease portfolios.
CDC’s Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry (ATSDR) announced the communities identified for the upcoming exposure...
Feb 22, 2019 | Michelle Shapiro
The U.S. Food & Drug Administration’s (FDA’s) Voluntary National Retail Food Regulatory Program Standards (Retail Program...
Dec 18, 2018 | Michelle Shapiro
NACCHO, the National Coalition of STD Directors (NCSD) and the Association of State and Territorial Health Officials (ASTHO), welcome...
Dec 14, 2018 | Kim Rodgers
The Interagency Food Safety Analytics Collaboration (IFSAC) released a report on updated foodborne illness source attribution...
Nov 21, 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
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
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 following statement is from U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) Commissioner Scott Gottlieb, M.D: The FDA is issuing a request...
Sep 27, 2018 | Michelle Shapiro
Through a Federal Register Notice (FRN),the Office of the Surgeon General (OSG) and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention...
Sep 14, 2018 | Kim Rodgers
CDC’s Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry (ATSDR) announced the communities identified for the upcoming exposure assessments that will examine human exposure to per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS). As part of the National Defense Authorization Act, CDC/ATSDR was asked to conduct exposure assessments in communities near current or former military installations. These...
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 […]
NACCHO, the National Coalition of STD Directors (NCSD) and the Association of State and Territorial Health Officials (ASTHO), welcome a new report from the National Academy of Public Administration that makes the case for taking urgent, concrete action to address skyrocketing STDs in the United States. Steps outlined in the report include designating a national […]
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,...
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 […]
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 […]
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 following statement is from U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) Commissioner Scott Gottlieb, M.D: The FDA is issuing a request for information as it examines its approach to the use of dairy food names like “milk,” “cheese,” or “yogurt” in the labeling of plant-based foods and beverages. Earlier this year, FDA Commissioner Scott Gottlieb […]
Through a Federal Register Notice (FRN),the Office of the Surgeon General (OSG) and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) are inviting interested persons or organizations to submit written views, recommendations, and data on the connection between community health and prosperity, business investment in local community health, investment strategies, the role of a healthy workforce...
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