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Southern Specialities Inc. has issued a recall notice for some Marketside bagged fresh green beans and pre-cut butternut squash...
Feb 27, 2019 | Michelle Shapiro
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) released an update of the Toxic Substances Control Act (TSCA) Inventory listing the...
Feb 22, 2019 | Michelle Shapiro
The National Center for Healthy Housing (NCHH), in collaboration with the National Association of County and City Health Officials...
Jan 23, 2019 | Michelle Shapiro
By Ruby Perin, Healthy Homes Branch Supervisor, Linn County Public Health, and James Hodina, Manager, Environmental Public Health,...
Jan 22, 2019 | Michelle Shapiro
The National Association of County and City Health Officials (NACCHO) has released the 2018 Preparedness Profile assessment describing...
Dec 20, 2018 | Katie Dwyer
The National Association of County and City Health Officials (NACCHO) partnered with Radiation Injury Treatment Network (RITN) to...
Dec 14, 2018
The November 2018 MAHC Network webinar on November 27 brought together representatives from the Colorado Department of Health and the...
Dec 11, 2018 | Michelle Shapiro
The U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development developed a Healthy Homes Youth App to help preteens learn about their indoor...
Nov 21, 2018 | Michelle Shapiro
The National Environmental Health Association (NEHA) is seeking information from environmental health professionals to identify best...
Nov 06, 2018 | Michelle Shapiro
Southern Specialities Inc. has issued a recall notice for some Marketside bagged fresh green beans and pre-cut butternut squash because of possible contamination with Listeria bacteria. Marketside is one of Walmart’s brands. The produce company’s recall notice says it is unknown whether any of the implicated vegetables reached retail shelves. Southern Specialties shipped the bags of […]
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) released an update of the Toxic Substances Control Act (TSCA) Inventory listing the chemicals that are actively being manufactured, processed and imported in the United States. A key result of the update is that less than half of the total number of chemicals on the current TSCA Inventory (47 […]
The National Center for Healthy Housing (NCHH), in collaboration with the National Association of County and City Health Officials (NACCHO), the National Environmental Health Association (NEHA), and the Association of State and Territorial Health Officials (ASTHO), offered a new funding opportunity in fall 2018 to local governmental agencies housing their jurisdiction’s childhood lead prevention...
By Ruby Perin, Healthy Homes Branch Supervisor, Linn County Public Health, and James Hodina, Manager, Environmental Public Health, Linn County Public Health Editor’s Note: In honor of National Radon Action Month in January, we are featuring Linn County, Iowa’s radon test kit distribution program, which was recognized as a Promising Practice through NACCHO’s Model Practices […]
The National Association of County and City Health Officials (NACCHO) has released the 2018 Preparedness Profile assessment describing the landscape of public health emergency preparedness across the United States. The assessment gathers information about preparedness trends and emerging issues at local health departments (LHDs) to provide an evidentiary foundation for future public health...
The National Association of County and City Health Officials (NACCHO) partnered with Radiation Injury Treatment Network (RITN) to identify, understand and address the gaps in public health, healthcare, and radiation control regarding outreach, training, and programmatic activities. During the 2017-2018 project year, NACCHO and RITN convened a subset of key stakeholders from these industries to...
The November 2018 MAHC Network webinar on November 27 brought together representatives from the Colorado Department of Health and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) to discuss response to a spa-related outbreak of Legionella. Presenter: Tori Burket completed her M.S. in Environmental Health with a specialization in Epidemiology at Colorado State University. There her […]
The U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development developed a Healthy Homes Youth App to help preteens learn about their indoor environment, including common hazards found in homes like lead, mold, and indoor air pollutants. The app is currently available for Apple devices here.
The National Environmental Health Association (NEHA) is seeking information from environmental health professionals to identify best practices in developing a model Legionella program. If you are part of an organization or health department that has an existing Legionella program in place or has an interest in developing one, please participate in a survey to aid […]
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