The Essential Elements of Local Public Health provides updates and information from NACCHO’s Environmental Health and Infectious Disease portfolios.
In response to three significant foodborne illness outbreaks that affected the City’s Latino and Somali communities in 2013, MEH...
Sep 18, 2019 | Michelle Shapiro
Foodborne illness is nearly always preventable, yet according to estimates from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC),...
Sep 03, 2019 | Michelle Shapiro
The Minnesota Food Safety Center of Excellence has developed three new checklists for environmental health specialists. The checklists...
Aug 28, 2019 | Michelle Shapiro
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has released the results of a sampling assignment that tested romaine lettuce grown in the Yuma,...
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and its public health partners in all 50 states are tracking and classifying...
Aug 01, 2019 | Michelle Shapiro
The Integrated Foodborne Outbreak Response and Management (InFORM) conference will be in Atlanta on March 9–12, 2020. InFORM brings...
Jul 30, 2019 | Michelle Shapiro
Over the past few years the FDA’s National Retail Food Team’s (NRFT) Industry Outreach Work group created materials and story board...
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration’s National Retail Food Team has released new posters that focus on proper holding practices for...
Jul 24, 2019 | Michelle Shapiro
On June 4–6, 2019, the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) National Retail Program Team management and retail association...
Jul 15, 2019 | Michelle Shapiro
In response to three significant foodborne illness outbreaks that affected the City’s Latino and Somali communities in 2013, MEH developed Somali language Certified Food Protection Manager Training (CFPM) and a Latino Food Service Worker training.
Foodborne illness is nearly always preventable, yet according to estimates from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), one in six Americans gets sick from contaminated food or beverages every year, and 3,000 die.
The Minnesota Food Safety Center of Excellence has developed three new checklists for environmental health specialists. The checklists provide guidance for EH staff responding to a suspected bacterial intoxication outbreak, a Campylobacter illness at a restaurant, and a Vibrio parahaemolyticus illness at a restaurant. They can be a useful resource for EH staff in the […]
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has released the results of a sampling assignment that tested romaine lettuce grown in the Yuma, AZ agricultural region for pathogenic Shiga toxin-producing Escherichia coli (STEC) and Salmonella spp. View the Summary Report: FY19 Sampling of Romaine Lettuce at Commercial Coolers in Yuma, Arizona. View the Environmental Assessment of […]
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and its public health partners in all 50 states are tracking and classifying foodborne illness in a new way, using advanced technology called whole genome sequencing (WGS) to detect and stop outbreaks and combat drug-resistant bacteria. PulseNet, the national network of laboratories that detects outbreaks of foodborne […]
The Integrated Foodborne Outbreak Response and Management (InFORM) conference will be in Atlanta on March 9–12, 2020. InFORM brings together the network of public health officials involved with foodborne and enteric disease outbreak response. Abstract submissions are now open through Sept. 15, 2019. Suggested environmental health topics include: Case studies and cross-cutting outbreaks...
Over the past few years the FDA’s National Retail Food Team’s (NRFT) Industry Outreach Work group created materials and story board posters (formerly known as Oral Culture) to be used for food safety training or for posting in employee work areas. These 8.5 x 11 story boards present visual depictions of scenarios that focus on […]
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration’s National Retail Food Team has released new posters that focus on proper holding practices for cold prepared food and adequate cooking temperatures for turkey and ground beef. These posters were created as part of the FDA’s efforts to enhance food safety training at the retail level by helping employees […]
On June 4–6, 2019, the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) National Retail Program Team management and retail association representatives held a meeting. Notes and outcomes from the meeting are outlined below: Meeting Purpose The purpose of the meeting and conference calls leading up to the meeting was to: Obtain a better understanding of FDA/association roles as they […]
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