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Celebrate National Nutrition Month
March is National Nutrition Month, an awareness event dedicated to fostering healthy eating habits and improving the health of people...
Mar 23, 2016 | Katie Regan
Attend Environmental Health Sessions at the 2016 Preparedness Summit
The Preparedness Summit, held this year in Dallas April 19-22, is the first and longest running national conference on public health...
Mar 21, 2016 | Amy Chang
CDC Celebrates PulseNet’s 20th Anniversary
PulseNet, a national network of public health laboratories, prevents an estimated 270,000 cases of food poisoning and saves half a...
Mar 19, 2016 | Katie Regan
Celebrate Spring’s Arrival with Flood Safety Preparedness Planning
This post originally ran on NACCHO’s Healthy People, Healthy Places blog. For more environmental health news and information, visit...
Mar 17, 2016 | Mary Hodges
NACCHO Now Accepting Applications for the LHD of the Year Award
The Local Health Department of the Year Award values that local health departments are the local stewards of public health—known for...
Mar 11, 2016 | Mary Hodges
CIFOR Training Grants Available to Local Health Departments
The Council on State and Territorial Epidemiologists (CSTE) is pleased to announce the availability of training grants for...
Mar 08, 2016 | Amy Chang
Senate Confirms New FDA Commissioner
The United States Senate voted at the end of February to confirm Robert Califf as the next commissioner of the Food and Drug...
Mar 08, 2016 | Katie Regan
2015 Annual Report to Congress on the Use of Mandatory Recall Authority
The Food Safety Modernization Act (FSMA) requires many deliverables from FDA, among them special reports and studies to be submitted...
Mar 07, 2016 | Amy Chang
CORE Network Provides Information on Recent Foodborne Illness Outbreaks
The Food and Drug Administration’s (FDA’s) Coordinated Outbreak Response and Evaluation (CORE) Network was created to manage not...
Mar 07, 2016 | Amy Chang
Celebrate National Nutrition MonthMarch is National Nutrition Month, an awareness event dedicated to fostering healthy eating habits and improving the health of people around the nation. A nutrition education and information campaign developed by the Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics, the campaign focuses on the importance of making informed food choices and developing sound eating and physical activity […] Mar 23, 2016 | Katie Regan |
Attend Environmental Health Sessions at the 2016 Preparedness SummitThe Preparedness Summit, held this year in Dallas April 19-22, is the first and longest running national conference on public health preparedness. This year, the Summit focuses on resiliency and recovery. There are several exciting sessions related to environmental health. Read more about the sessions below: Danger at the Dinner Table: Understanding and Addressing Existing […] Mar 21, 2016 | Amy Chang |
CDC Celebrates PulseNet’s 20th AnniversaryPulseNet, a national network of public health laboratories, prevents an estimated 270,000 cases of food poisoning and saves half a billion dollars every year, according to a study released in the American Journal of Preventive Medicine today. In comparison, the network costs public health agencies about $7 million a year to run. Launched in 1996, […] Mar 19, 2016 | Katie Regan |
Celebrate Spring’s Arrival with Flood Safety Preparedness PlanningThis post originally ran on NACCHO’s Healthy People, Healthy Places blog. For more environmental health news and information, visit http://essentialelements.naccho.org/. Though the official start of spring is still a week away, the season’s hallmark rainstorms have already begun to fall and raise the threat of severe flooding across the country. Flooding is a risk any time […] Mar 17, 2016 | Mary Hodges |
NACCHO Now Accepting Applications for the LHD of the Year AwardThe Local Health Department of the Year Award values that local health departments are the local stewards of public health—known for helping to ensure the safety of the water we drink, the food we eat, and the air we breathe. This award recognizes and honors the outstanding accomplishments of small, medium, and large local health departments […] Mar 11, 2016 | Mary Hodges |
CIFOR Training Grants Available to Local Health DepartmentsThe Council on State and Territorial Epidemiologists (CSTE) is pleased to announce the availability of training grants for implementation of the Second Edition of the Council to Improve Foodborne Outbreak and Response (CIFOR) Guidelines for Foodborne Disease Outbreak Response and the CIFOR Toolkit. The opportunity is now open to health departments serving a population size of […] Mar 08, 2016 | Amy Chang |
Senate Confirms New FDA CommissionerThe United States Senate voted at the end of February to confirm Robert Califf as the next commissioner of the Food and Drug Administration (FDA). Califf, a cardiologist and academic researcher, received overwhelming support from an often divided Senate; the vote was 89 to 4. Califf, who was nominated by President Obama in September 2015 […] Mar 08, 2016 | Katie Regan |
2015 Annual Report to Congress on the Use of Mandatory Recall AuthorityThe Food Safety Modernization Act (FSMA) requires many deliverables from FDA, among them special reports and studies to be submitted to Congress. Click here to read the report on the use of mandatory recall authority in fiscal year 2015. Mar 07, 2016 | Amy Chang |
CORE Network Provides Information on Recent Foodborne Illness OutbreaksThe Food and Drug Administration’s (FDA’s) Coordinated Outbreak Response and Evaluation (CORE) Network was created to manage not just outbreak response, but surveillance and post-response activities related to incidents involving multiple illnesses linked to FDA-regulated human and animal food and cosmetic products. Get up-to-date information on on-going and recent multistate outbreaks here. Mar 07, 2016 | Amy Chang |
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