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Using NEARS To Enhance Foodborne Illness Outbreak Response
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s National Environmental Assessment Reporting System (NEARS) is a surveillance...
Apr 19, 2017 | Amy Chang
Research Article: Whole Genome Sequencing and Salmonella Outbreaks
Investigating multistate foodborne outbreaks of Salmonella infections associated with chicken is especially challenging due to the...
Apr 03, 2017 | Amy Chang
Integrated Food Safety Centers of Excellence: Winter 2017 Newsletter
The Integrated Food Safety Centers of Excellence have just released the winter edition of their newsletter, Centered on Food Safety,...
Mar 31, 2017 | Amy Chang
Travel Funding Available: Central/Midwest Regional PulseNet & OutbreakNet Meeting
With support from the CDC and FDA, the National Environmental Health Association (NEHA) and the Association of Public Health...
Dec 20, 2016 | Anastasia Sonneman
Updated NACCHO Policy Statements: Food System Safety and Foodborne Disease Outbreak...
NACCHO recently released two updated policy statements under its Food Safety and Defense program. The first statement is on Food...
Nov 29, 2016 | Anastasia Sonneman
Travel Funding Available: Joint Regional PulseNet & OutbreakNet PulseNet Meeting
The National Environmental Health Association (NEHA) and the Association of Public Health Laboratories (APHL) are pleased to offer a...
Nov 08, 2016 | Anastasia Sonneman
The CIFOR Toolkit: A Powerful Training Resource Advancing Foodborne Outbreak Response
By Scott E. Holmes, REHS, MS, Environmental Public Health Manager, Lincoln-Lancaster County Health Department What do you get when you...
Oct 06, 2016 | Anastasia Sonneman
Hog Roast Outbreaks Highlight Efforts to Strengthen Public Health Partnerships
By William Lanier, DVM, MPH, DACVPM, Senior Epidemiologist, Karen Becker, DVM, MPH, DACVPM, Director of Applied Epidemiology, and...
Sep 27, 2016 | Anastasia Sonneman
New FSIS Webpages: Supporting Foodborne Illness Investigation Capacity
The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) Food Safety and Inspection Service (FSIS) is announcing the release of two new webpages...
Aug 09, 2016 | Anastasia Sonneman
Using NEARS To Enhance Foodborne Illness Outbreak ResponseThe Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s National Environmental Assessment Reporting System (NEARS) is a surveillance system used to capture environmental assessment data from foodborne illness outbreak investigations. Local retail food regulatory programs that participate in NEARS can help prevent foodborne illness outbreaks associated with retail food facilities in their... Apr 19, 2017 | Amy Chang |
Research Article: Whole Genome Sequencing and Salmonella OutbreaksInvestigating multistate foodborne outbreaks of Salmonella infections associated with chicken is especially challenging due to the numerous available brands of poultry meat and high consumption rates among U.S. populations. PubMed recently published a research article titled, “Utility of Combining Whole Genome Sequencing with Traditional Investigational Methods To Solve Foodborne Outbreaks... Apr 03, 2017 | Amy Chang |
Integrated Food Safety Centers of Excellence: Winter 2017 NewsletterThe Integrated Food Safety Centers of Excellence have just released the winter edition of their newsletter, Centered on Food Safety, available at this link. This edition features articles the following topics: New outbreak case studies A training on the System for Enteric Disease Response, Investigation, and Coordination (SEDRIC) Spotlight on the OutbreakNet Enhanced program Updates from […] Mar 31, 2017 | Amy Chang |
Travel Funding Available: Central/Midwest Regional PulseNet & OutbreakNet MeetingWith support from the CDC and FDA, the National Environmental Health Association (NEHA) and the Association of Public Health Laboratories (APHL) are offering travel funds for environmental health specialists interested in attending the joint PulseNet/OutbreakNet regional meeting for the Central/Midwest region. This in-person event is scheduled to take place on March 7-9, 2017 in Chicago, IL.... Dec 20, 2016 | Anastasia Sonneman |
Updated NACCHO Policy Statements: Food System Safety and Foodborne Disease Outbreak ResponseNACCHO recently released two updated policy statements under its Food Safety and Defense program. The first statement is on Food System Safety, which provides guidance to ensure local health department participation in all areas of food safety as a means to reduce foodborne illness in the communities they serve. The Foodborne Disease Outbreak Response Policy […] Nov 29, 2016 | Anastasia Sonneman |
Travel Funding Available: Joint Regional PulseNet & OutbreakNet PulseNet MeetingThe National Environmental Health Association (NEHA) and the Association of Public Health Laboratories (APHL) are pleased to offer a limited number of travel scholarships intended to offset attendance costs for the Joint Mountain/West Regional PulseNet & Outbreak Meeting to be held in San Francisco, CA, February 8-10, 2017. Environmental health specialist focused on foodborne illness outbreak... Nov 08, 2016 | Anastasia Sonneman |
The CIFOR Toolkit: A Powerful Training Resource Advancing Foodborne Outbreak ResponseBy Scott E. Holmes, REHS, MS, Environmental Public Health Manager, Lincoln-Lancaster County Health Department What do you get when you bring together over 60 public health professionals specializing in environmental health, epidemiology, and laboratory sciences, representing 15 different local and state agencies to discuss how to improve foodborne outbreak response in Nebraska? A major “reboot”... Oct 06, 2016 | Anastasia Sonneman |
Hog Roast Outbreaks Highlight Efforts to Strengthen Public Health PartnershipsBy William Lanier, DVM, MPH, DACVPM, Senior Epidemiologist, Karen Becker, DVM, MPH, DACVPM, Director of Applied Epidemiology, and Gabrielle Johnston, MPH, Public Affairs Specialist, United States Department of Agriculture, Food Safety and Inspection Service September highlights two important and interrelated public health issues, with National Food Safety Education Month and National Farm Safety... Sep 27, 2016 | Anastasia Sonneman |
New FSIS Webpages: Supporting Foodborne Illness Investigation CapacityThe U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) Food Safety and Inspection Service (FSIS) is announcing the release of two new webpages focusing on supporting local and state agencies responding to foodborne illness outbreaks. Both pages are designed to advance communication between public health professionals and FSIS when addressing foodborne illness investigations involving FSIS-regulated products.... Aug 09, 2016 | Anastasia Sonneman |
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