The Essential Elements of Local Public Health provides updates and information from NACCHO’s Environmental Health and Infectious Disease portfolios.
Local health departments play a critical role in promoting effective strategies to improve and maintain oral health. NACCHO’s new...
Jun 11, 2018 | Michelle Shapiro
On May 30, 2018, NACCHO hosted a webinar exploring national guidance and local experiences on Legionella. Legionnaires’ disease is a...
Jun 07, 2018 | Michelle Shapiro
The American Planning Association (APA) is working with the Health Impact Project (HIP) to help planners use comprehensive plans for...
Jun 06, 2018 | Michelle Shapiro
Tuesday, June 5 is World Environment Day, the United Nations’ recognized day to encourage global awareness and action to protect...
Jun 05, 2018 | Michelle Shapiro
The application deadline for the Dave Theno Food Safety Fellowship has been extended to June 15, 2018. The individual selected to...
Jun 01, 2018 | Michelle Shapiro
The following announcement is from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA): A new section of the FDA Data Dashboard has been...
A Harvard study on food safety inspectors’ schedules found that tweaking schedules could result in the discovery of hundreds of...
Jun 01, 2018 | Amy Chang
The National Association of County and City Health Officials (NACCHO), representing nearly 3,000 local governmental health...
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) issued a final rule to extend the compliance dates for updating the Nutrition Facts and...
Local health departments play a critical role in promoting effective strategies to improve and maintain oral health. NACCHO’s new Community Water Fluoridation Communications Toolkit has resources to help local health departments and other organizations educate and inform their communities about the benefits of fluoridation: Community Fluoridation Online Resources for Local Health Departments 9...
On May 30, 2018, NACCHO hosted a webinar exploring national guidance and local experiences on Legionella. Legionnaires’ disease is a respiratory disease caused by Legionella bacteria, which can be found in the water systems of large buildings. In 2016, there were an estimated 6,100 cases of Legionnaires’ disease in the United States. During the webinar, […]
The American Planning Association (APA) is working with the Health Impact Project (HIP) to help planners use comprehensive plans for addressing issues related to health and equity. At least three communities will be selected to receive training and coaching on social determinants of health, health equity, and APA’s Comprehensive Plan Standards for Sustaining Places. Apply […]
Tuesday, June 5 is World Environment Day, the United Nations’ recognized day to encourage global awareness and action to protect the environment. This year, the theme of World Environment Day is beating plastic pollution. Similar to the 2018 Earth Day theme of ending plastic pollution (read NACCHO’s Earth Day blog post on plastic straws here), […]
The application deadline for the Dave Theno Food Safety Fellowship has been extended to June 15, 2018. The individual selected to receive the fellowship will complete a 12-credit hour online Food Safety Certificate with Michigan State University. The fellowship includes tuition, housing, benefits, and salary. Learn more here.
The following announcement is from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA): A new section of the FDA Data Dashboard has been launched to help importers and manufacturers/processors meet supply-chain requirements under the FDA Food Safety Modernization Act (FSMA) by helping them more easily find compliance and enforcement information related to specific firms. Three of […]
A Harvard study on food safety inspectors’ schedules found that tweaking schedules could result in the discovery of hundreds of thousands of violations that are now being overlooked in the United States every year. Through a review of food safety inspection from local health departments in the U.S., the researchers found that inspectors cited fewer […]
The National Association of County and City Health Officials (NACCHO), representing nearly 3,000 local governmental health departments, is pleased to announce Maricopa County Environmental Services Department as the recipient of the 2018 Samuel J. Crumbine Consumer Protection Award for Excellence in Food Protection at the Local Level. This award is given annually to local environmental […]
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) issued a final rule to extend the compliance dates for updating the Nutrition Facts and Supplemental Facts labels. For manufacturers with $10 million or more in annual food sales, the new compliance dates is January 1, 2020. Manufacturers with less than $10 million in annual food sales have […]
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