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The Issue submission process for the 2020 Biennial Meeting is now live and will remain open until 9:00 PM Eastern time on December 31,...
Dec 02, 2019 | Michelle Shapiro
Washington Integrated Food Safety Center of Excellence is a collaboration between the Washington State Department of Health (DOH) and...
Nominations are now being accepted for the 2020 Samuel J. Crumbine Consumer Protection Award for Excellence in Food Protection at the...
Nov 26, 2019 | Michelle Shapiro
The rise in vector-borne disease cases is increasing the awareness that mosquitoes are more than just nuisance pests. When populations...
FDA, CDC, and state health authorities are investigating an outbreak of illnesses caused by E. coli O157:H7 in the United States....
Nov 25, 2019 | Michelle Shapiro
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration’s (FDA’s) National Retail Food Team today released additional posters that will highlight retail...
The Association of Food and Drug Officials (AFDO) has created an excellent resource on Produce Safety following the adoption and...
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration is extending the comment period by 15 days to allow stakeholders more time to provide input on...
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), public health and regulatory officials in three states, and the U.S. Food and...
The Issue submission process for the 2020 Biennial Meeting is now live and will remain open until 9:00 PM Eastern time on December 31, 2019. Use this link to begin the Issue submission process – http://www.foodprotect.org/issues/. On this page you will find Terms and Conditions and Guidelines for submitting Issues. In the opening paragraph on […]
Washington Integrated Food Safety Center of Excellence is a collaboration between the Washington State Department of Health (DOH) and the University of Washington (UW). Beth Melius serves as the center’s DOH co director. She has been the lead enteric disease epidemiologist in Washington since 2013. Janet Baseman, Professor of Epidemiology and Associate Dean for Public […]
Nominations are now being accepted for the 2020 Samuel J. Crumbine Consumer Protection Award for Excellence in Food Protection at the Local Level. This award is given annually to local environmental health jurisdictions that demonstrate unsurpassed achievement in providing outstanding food protection services to their communities and highlight successful approaches to food safety that can be...
The rise in vector-borne disease cases is increasing the awareness that mosquitoes are more than just nuisance pests. When populations surface, often public health concerns follow. How can you increase awareness and protection surrounding your local management efforts? Vector Disease Control International hosted a webinar on Four Common Oversights Government Officials Make With Mosquito...
FDA, CDC, and state health authorities are investigating an outbreak of illnesses caused by E. coli O157:H7 in the United States. Epidemiologic, laboratory, and traceback evidence indicates that romaine lettuce from the Salinas, California growing region is a likely source of this outbreak. Consumers: Consumers should not eat romaine lettuce harvested from Salinas, California. Additionally,...
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration’s (FDA’s) National Retail Food Team today released additional posters that will highlight retail date marking for ready-to-eat, time/temperature control for safety food and adequate cooking temperatures for turkey and ground beef. These posters are two-sided, with English on one side and a variety of other languages, including Spanish, Russian, […]
The Association of Food and Drug Officials (AFDO) has created an excellent resource on Produce Safety following the adoption and implementation of the Produce Safety Rule as part of the Food Safety Modernization Act. Learn more here.
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration is extending the comment period by 15 days to allow stakeholders more time to provide input on the New Era of Smarter Food Safety. The comment period was set to close on November 20, 2019, 30 days after the October 21 public meeting on this new approach that FDA […]
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), public health and regulatory officials in three states, and the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) are investigating a multistate outbreak of hepatitis A that may be linked to fresh conventional (non-organic) blackberries purchased during September 9-30, 2019 from Fresh Thyme Farmers Market, a Midwest grocery chain. […]
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