The Essential Elements of Local Public Health provides updates and information from NACCHO’s Environmental Health and Infectious Disease portfolios.
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) posted a warning letter issued to Jimmy John’s Franchise LLC for engaging in a pattern of...
Feb 27, 2020 | Michelle Shapiro
Throughout Fiscal Year 2020, FDA’s Office of Regulatory Affairs (ORA) will be developing a comprehensive, 10-year Strategic Plan. The...
Feb 20, 2020 | Michelle Shapiro
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA), along with the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), and state and local...
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration is reopening the comment period on a 2005 proposed rule to establish a set of general principles...
CDC’s Division of Foodborne, Waterborne, and Environmental Diseases has produced a new video series, “Was It Something I Ate?,” which...
Feb 19, 2020 | Michelle Shapiro
The Food and Drug Administration today announced the availability of a Small Entity Compliance Guide (SECG) to help packaged food...
Feb 03, 2020 | Michelle Shapiro
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is advising consumers to stop using Nopalina Flax Seed Fiber (powder) and Nopalina Flax...
Jan 31, 2020 | Michelle Shapiro
Recommendation As of January 15, 2020, the CDC reports that the outbreak appears to be over. Contaminated romaine from the Salinas, CA...
The USDA Food Safety and Inspection Service (FSIS) has posted on its website an after-action review report for the investigation of a...
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) posted a warning letter issued to Jimmy John’s Franchise LLC for engaging in a pattern of receiving and offering for sale adulterated fresh produce, specifically clover sprouts and cucumbers. The FDA also posted a warning letter to Sprouts Unlimited Wholesale Foods for supplying sprouts to Jimmy John’s which […]
Throughout Fiscal Year 2020, FDA’s Office of Regulatory Affairs (ORA) will be developing a comprehensive, 10-year Strategic Plan. The Plan will identify ORA’s goals and objectives based on their core mission and priorities. It will be drafted by the Strategic Plan Development Workgroup, led by ORA’s Office of Strategic Planning and Operational Policy. Each ORA […]
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA), along with the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), and state and local partners, investigated a multistate outbreak of hepatitis A illnesses in Indiana, Michigan, Minnesota, Missouri, Nebraska, and Wisconsin linked to fresh, conventional (non-organic) blackberries from the grocery stores Fresh Thyme Farmers Market and Woodman’s Market. As...
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration is reopening the comment period on a 2005 proposed rule to establish a set of general principles for the agency to use when considering whether to establish, revise or eliminate a food standard of identity. The original proposed rule was jointly published with the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA). […]
CDC’s Division of Foodborne, Waterborne, and Environmental Diseases has produced a new video series, “Was It Something I Ate?,” which presents stories of people who developed serious enteric (intestinal) infections from food or animal contact. The stories are from families with children who developed Salmonella infection from eating contaminated chicken or contact with backyard poultry, […]
The Food and Drug Administration today announced the availability of a Small Entity Compliance Guide (SECG) to help packaged food manufacturers meet federal standards in the final rule “ Food Labeling: Revision of the Nutrition and Supplement Facts Labels.” The final rule, which was published on May 27, 2016, amends the labeling regulations for foods […]
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is advising consumers to stop using Nopalina Flax Seed Fiber (powder) and Nopalina Flax Seed Fiber (capsules) identified by the lot numbers above due to possible Salmonella contamination. Consumers of these products who are experiencing symptoms of salmonellosis should contact their health care provider. To date, there are […]
Recommendation As of January 15, 2020, the CDC reports that the outbreak appears to be over. Contaminated romaine from the Salinas, CA growing region that made people sick in this outbreak is likely no longer available. Consumers need not avoid romaine lettuce, or any other produce, from the Salinas, CA growing area. Update FDA will […]
The USDA Food Safety and Inspection Service (FSIS) has posted on its website an after-action review report for the investigation of a 2018 outbreak of E. coli O26 illnesses associated with ground beef. During July–October 2018, public health officials in Florida, Massachusetts, Colorado, Tennessee, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), and the Food […]
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