The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) recently updated their Listeria website. This digital resource includes a number of useful facts related to diseases caused by listeria, the foods commonly tied to causing the Listeriosis infection,…
Made possible through a multi-level collaboration of federal and non-profit public health agencies, the Association of Public Health Laboratories (APHL) is hosting a Joint Mountain/West Regional PulseNet & OutbreakNet PulseNet Meeting in San Francisco, CA,…
Join the Food Protection and Defense Institute (FPDI) for their February webinar as a part of their ongoing Food Protection Series, scheduled for February 3, 2017 from 11:00 AM to 12:00 PM/ET. This presentation will provide updates…
Join the the Food Protection and Defense Institute (FPDI) for their January webinar scheduled for January 13, 2017 from 11:00 AM to 12:00 PM/ET. This online learning opportunity will explore the Food Safety and Modernization…
The sixth annual National Consumer Food Safety Education Conference will be held on January 25-27, 2017, in Washington, D.C. at the Washington Marriott Wardman Park Hotel. Through the support of the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA)…
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) recently shared an infographic that provides a visual explanation of the three types of data used to link illnesses to contaminated foods and solve outbreak. The infographic describes…
By William Lanier, DVM, MPH, DACVPM, Senior Epidemiologist, Karen Becker, DVM, MPH, DACVPM, Director of Applied Epidemiology, and Gabrielle Johnston, MPH, Public Affairs Specialist, United States Department of Agriculture, Food Safety and Inspection Service September highlights two important and…
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is hosting a two-day public workshop as a part of its ongoing series on menu labeling in St. Louis, Missouri on September 27-28, 2016. This training aims to support…
NACCHO, in coordination with the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA), invites all retail food regulatory programs to submit applications for participation in its 2016-2017 Mentorship Program for the Retail Program Standards. Program participants will…
NACCHO, in collaboration with the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) conducted research and developed new reports to learn more about scoring, grading, and placarding systems used by domestic retail food regulatory programs. These report…