CDC Study: How Often Retail Delis Clean Deli Slicers

What percentage of delis clean their slicers as often as FDA recommends to prevent germs from spreading? Find out in this new study,...

May 02, 2016 | Amy Chang

  • Foodborne Illness Trends

    The CDC’s Foodborne Disease Active Surveillance Network, FoodNet, has released their most recent report. This report provides a...

    May 02, 2016 | Amy Chang

  • CDC Finds that Diagnostic Tests Challenge Foodborne Illness Tracking

    In the April 15, 2016 issue of the CDC’s Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report, the report states that diagnostic tests used to...

    May 02, 2016 | Amy Chang

  • FDA Releases Updated Information about the Implementation of the Retail Food Program...

    The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) released an updated informational document about the Voluntary National Retail Food Regulatory...

    Apr 21, 2016 | Amy Chang

  • New U.S. Report Advances Knowledge on Health Impacts of Climate Change

    The Impacts of Climate Change on Human Health in the United States: A Scientific Assessment, a new report by the Obama Administration,...

    Apr 10, 2016 | Katie Regan

  • Balancing Transparency and Integrity: How We Changed Public Notification of...

    The second half of 2015 felt like all foodborne illness, all the time. In the summer, we dealt with a statewide salmonella outbreak...

    Apr 07, 2016 | Guest Author

  • FDA Finalizes Rule to Ensure Food Safety During Transport

    The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has finalized a new food safety rule that will help prevent food contamination during...

    Apr 06, 2016 | Katie Regan

  • The Capital City Food Truck Convention Hosts Workshop on Regulatory Best Practices

    Mobile food units are one of the hottest topics and challenges facing local food regulatory programs across the nation. The second...

    Mar 24, 2016 | Amy Chang

  • Attend Environmental Health Sessions at the 2016 Preparedness Summit

    The Preparedness Summit, held this year in Dallas April 19-22, is the first and longest running national conference on public health...

    Mar 21, 2016 | Amy Chang

  • CDC Study: How Often Retail Delis Clean Deli Slicers

    What percentage of delis clean their slicers as often as FDA recommends to prevent germs from spreading? Find out in this new study, published in CDC’s  Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report.   

    May 02, 2016 | Amy Chang

    Foodborne Illness Trends

    The CDC’s Foodborne Disease Active Surveillance Network, FoodNet, has released their most recent report. This report provides a preliminary 2015 data on the nine most common germs spread through food. Overall, the progress in reducing rates of foodborne illnesses has been limited since 2012 and the most frequent causes of infection in 2015 were Salmonella and Campylobacter. […]

    May 02, 2016 | Amy Chang

    CDC Finds that Diagnostic Tests Challenge Foodborne Illness Tracking

    In the April 15, 2016 issue of the CDC’s Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report, the report states that diagnostic tests used to identify foodborne illnesses faster could soon pose challenges to finding outbreaks and monitoring progress toward preventing foodborne disease. Culture-independent diagnostic tests (CIDTs) help doctors diagnose infections quicker than traditional culture methods,...

    May 02, 2016 | Amy Chang

    FDA Releases Updated Information about the Implementation of the Retail Food Program Standards

    The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) released an updated informational document about the Voluntary National Retail Food Regulatory Program Standards. This document includes answers to common questions about implementation of the Retail Program Standards. The Clearinghouse Work Group developed the answers in response to questions from state, local, tribal, and territorial retail food regulatory...

    Apr 21, 2016 | Amy Chang

    New U.S. Report Advances Knowledge on Health Impacts of Climate Change

    The Impacts of Climate Change on Human Health in the United States: A Scientific Assessment, a new report by the Obama Administration, significantly advances what we know about the impacts of climate change on public health, and the confidence with which we know it. The report, jointly conducted by eight different U.S. federal agencies over […]

    Apr 10, 2016 | Katie Regan

    Balancing Transparency and Integrity: How We Changed Public Notification of Potential Outbreaks

    The second half of 2015 felt like all foodborne illness, all the time. In the summer, we dealt with a statewide salmonella outbreak resulting from contamination at a supplier of whole hogs who sold to small food establishments in our county, as well as to individuals for backyard pig roasts.

    Apr 07, 2016 | Guest Author

    FDA Finalizes Rule to Ensure Food Safety During Transport

    The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has finalized a new food safety rule that will help prevent food contamination during transportation. The rule will require those involved in transporting human and animal food by motor or rail vehicle to follow recognized best practices for sanitary transportation, such as properly refrigerating food, adequately cleaning vehicles between […]

    Apr 06, 2016 | Katie Regan

    The Capital City Food Truck Convention Hosts Workshop on Regulatory Best Practices

    Mobile food units are one of the hottest topics and challenges facing local food regulatory programs across the nation. The second annual Capital City Food Truck Convention, sponsored by the DC, Maryland, and Virginia Food Truck Association, brought together the metropolitan region’s food truck owners, industry purveyors and service providers, and regulators March 12-13. The […]

    Mar 24, 2016 | Amy Chang

    Attend Environmental Health Sessions at the 2016 Preparedness Summit

    The Preparedness Summit, held this year in Dallas April 19-22, is the first and longest running national conference on public health preparedness. This year, the Summit focuses on resiliency and recovery. There are several exciting sessions related to environmental health. Read more about the sessions below: Danger at the Dinner Table: Understanding and Addressing Existing […]

    Mar 21, 2016 | Amy Chang

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