The Essential Elements of Local Public Health provides updates and information from NACCHO’s Environmental Health and Infectious Disease portfolios.
The Integrated Food Safety Centers of Excellence (CoE) have developed competencies for public health professionals who investigate...
Jun 20, 2019 | Michelle Shapiro
The U.S. Food & Drug Administration’s (FDA’s) Voluntary National Retail Food Regulatory Program Standards (Retail Program...
May 10, 2019 | Michelle Shapiro
A recent article in Food Safety Magazine describes the daily efforts of state and local environmental public health officials to...
May 06, 2019 | Michelle Shapiro
The skills needed to investigate outbreaks of foodborne illness in restaurants are different from those needed to inspect restaurants....
Most foodborne outbreaks occur in retail food establishments like restaurants. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)...
Apr 15, 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
As expected, 2018 was another busy year in emerging infectious diseases at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). To...
Mar 05, 2019 | Kim Rodgers
Thorough analysis of foodborne outbreaks and other incidents is fundamental to identifying preventive measures that can reduce...
Feb 27, 2019 | Michelle Shapiro
The Integrated Food Safety Centers of Excellence (CoE) have developed competencies for public health professionals who investigate foodborne outbreaks. They invite you to participate in this short survey to evaluate the competencies, which will help guide the future development of CoE trainings and curricula. They are currently seeking feedback from environmental health professionals and...
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 […]
A recent article in Food Safety Magazine describes the daily efforts of state and local environmental public health officials to investigate localized foodborne illness outbreaks. While these smaller outbreaks do not always garner significant media attention, investigating them is still very important to keeping communities safe and healthy. Many health officials are pioneering innovative...
The skills needed to investigate outbreaks of foodborne illness in restaurants are different from those needed to inspect restaurants. It is critical to have environmental health staff on outbreak investigation teams. The CDC’s Environmental Assessment Training Series (EATS) provides training on the role of environmental assessments in the broader context of outbreak investigations and the...
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 […]
As expected, 2018 was another busy year in emerging infectious diseases at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). To reflect, the National Center for Emerging and Zoonotic Infectious Diseases (NCEZID) recently released the 2018 Accomplishments Report. This report describes the important work of NCEZID over the past year, none of which would have […]
Thorough analysis of foodborne outbreaks and other incidents is fundamental to identifying preventive measures that can reduce contamination risks and human illnesses. However, root cause analysis remains an underutilized tool. Individual companies and food safety agencies vary widely in when and how they conduct root cause analysis, in part because they lack shared definitions and […]
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