The Essential Elements of Local Public Health provides updates and information from NACCHO’s Environmental Health and Infectious Disease portfolios.
Most foodborne outbreaks occur in retail food establishments like restaurants. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)...
May 06, 2019 | Michelle Shapiro
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
The CDC and USDA released a new infographic on cooking chicken liver safely. The text of the infographic is below. See the full...
Mar 25, 2019 | Michelle Shapiro
The theme for this year’s World Water Day, recognized annually on March 22, is “Leaving no one behind.” Billions of people around the...
Mar 22, 2019 | Michelle Shapiro
The National Conference of State Legislatures (NCSL) reviewed all state-level food safety legislation in 2018. State legislatures...
Jan 30, 2019 | Michelle Shapiro
As of January 1, 2019, California law permits people to sell meals prepared in their home kitchens. However, individual counties have...
Jan 28, 2019 | Michelle Shapiro
An article in Food Safety News looks at the effectiveness of using online review sites like Yelp to predict food safety non-compliance...
The National Environmental Health Association (NEHA) advocates for national, state, and local policies, regulations, research, and...
Dec 04, 2018 | Michelle Shapiro
On Tuesday, November 27, 2018, NACCHO participated in a 50-state conference call held by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA)...
Nov 30, 2018 | Michelle Shapiro
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 […]
The CDC and USDA released a new infographic on cooking chicken liver safely. The text of the infographic is below. See the full infographic here. Chefs, Cooks, and Caterers: Cook Chicken Liver Like It’s Chicken (It Is): Cook Chicken Liver to 165°F Always Cook Chicken Liver All the Way through Use a food thermometer (you can’t tell […]
The theme for this year’s World Water Day, recognized annually on March 22, is “Leaving no one behind.” Billions of people around the world already live without access to safe water, and in emergencies, those numbers increase exponentially. Across the United States, aging water infrastructure, severe weather, and accidents cause an estimated 240,000 water main […]
The National Conference of State Legislatures (NCSL) reviewed all state-level food safety legislation in 2018. State legislatures enacted 170 laws & adopted 18 resolutions related to food. The most common issues addressed included food donations (72 bills), food service in schools (57 bills), and food service in restaurants (57 bills). Forty-five milk and raw milk […]
As of January 1, 2019, California law permits people to sell meals prepared in their home kitchens. However, individual counties have to opt in, and so far, none have. The goal of the law is to give people an opportunity to experiment and see if opening a restaurant would be a good idea. The law […]
An article in Food Safety News looks at the effectiveness of using online review sites like Yelp to predict food safety non-compliance in restaurants. The article says that reviews can be unreliable indicators because people often attribute their foodborne illness to the last place they ate (even though the foodborne illness incubation period is usually […]
The National Environmental Health Association (NEHA) advocates for national, state, and local policies, regulations, research, and resources that will enhance the ability of environmental health professionals to regulate Cottage Foods and Home-Based Restaurants in order to protect public health. NEHA’s Board of Directors recently approved a policy statement on Food Safety for Cottage Foods...
On Tuesday, November 27, 2018, NACCHO participated in a 50-state conference call held by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) on the multistate outbreak of E. coli O157:H7 likely linked to romaine lettuce. For the most up-to-date information on this outbreak, visit https://www.fda.gov/Food/RecallsOutbreaksEmergencies/Outbreaks/ucm626330.htm. The Centers Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)...
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