The Essential Elements of Local Public Health provides updates and information from NACCHO’s Environmental Health and Infectious Disease portfolios.
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and several states are investigating a multistate outbreak of Listeria infections...
May 06, 2019 | Michelle Shapiro
A recent Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention focused on the latest data from the...
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration announced during a public meeting that routine inspections to verify compliance with the...
Note: This is the ninth edition of NACCHO’s Greener Guidance environmental health advice column. See past columns here. Submit a...
Apr 22, 2019 | Michelle Shapiro
The Healthy and Safe Swimming Week Partner Toolkit 2019 is now available from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. The...
The U.S. Food & Drug Administration’s (FDA’s) Voluntary National Retail Food Regulatory Program Standards (Retail Program...
Apr 15, 2019 | Michelle Shapiro
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) published the second installment of a draft guidance document designed to support...
Mar 28, 2019 | Michelle Shapiro
Henry Avocado Corporation is voluntarily recalling California-grown whole avocados sold in bulk at retail stores because they have the...
The Tennessee Integrated Food Safety Centers of Excellence (CoE) receives funding to assist state and local health departments on a...
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and several states are investigating a multistate outbreak of Listeria infections linked to deli-sliced meats and cheeses. The U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Food Safety and Inspection Service and the U.S. Food and Drug Administration are monitoring the outbreak. A total of 8 people infected with the outbreak strain of Listeria […]
A recent Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention focused on the latest data from the Foodborne Disease Active Surveillance Network (FoodNet). The report summarizes preliminary 2018 data on eight pathogens spread commonly through food, including changes in incidence since 2015. The report and accompanying materials are now available at...
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration announced during a public meeting that routine inspections to verify compliance with the Intentional Adulteration (IA) rule will begin in March 2020. The FSMA final rule on intentional adulteration is designed to address hazards that may be intentionally introduced to foods, including by acts of terrorism, with the intent […]
Note: This is the ninth edition of NACCHO’s Greener Guidance environmental health advice column. See past columns here. Submit a question here. April 2019 Dear Greener Guidance, In my area, there is a push toward increasing housing density without expanding central sewer systems, including in areas that have extremely coarse-textured soils with shallow water tables. What are […]
The Healthy and Safe Swimming Week Partner Toolkit 2019 is now available from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. The toolkit is a guide to help public health professionals engage their target audiences and increase awareness of this annual observance. The toolkit includes community outreach suggestions; online resources; a sample press release, feature, and proclamation; […]
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 […]
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) published the second installment of a draft guidance document designed to support compliance with the Intentional Adulteration (IA) Rule under the FDA Food Safety Modernization Act (FSMA). The FSMA final rule on intentional adulteration is designed to address hazards that may be intentionally introduced to foods, including by […]
Henry Avocado Corporation is voluntarily recalling California-grown whole avocados sold in bulk at retail stores because they have the potential to be contaminated with Listeria monocytogenes. Henry Avocado is issuing this voluntary recall out of an abundance of caution due to positive test results on environmental samples taken during a routine government inspection at its California […]
The Tennessee Integrated Food Safety Centers of Excellence (CoE) receives funding to assist state and local health departments on a one-on-one basis. The CoE can offer the following consultation services: enteric disease interviews interview tracking databases (the CoE uses REDCap) cluster investigations using PFGE/WGS outbreak investigations detection and response stool collection food and...
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