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Food Safety Programs
NEHA’s Food Safety Programs
are dedicated to educating food safety and environmental health professionals.
These programs include:
NEHA Food Safety Training – One objective of NEHA is to improve the quality of food safety training in the U.S. by establishing a nationwide network of certified food safety trainers and by providing accurate and effective learning materials to trainers, managers, and employees in the food service industry. In supporting our mission, “to advance the environmental health and protection professional for the purpose of providing a healthful environment for all,” NEHA continually reviews existing educational resources and explores new training opportunities for all environmental health professionals.
Epi-Ready Team Training
– NEHA, in cooperation with the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), offers a holistic face-to-face training opportunity to provide up-to-date foodborne disease outbreak investigation and surveillance training to public and private sector environmental health professionals as well as other professionals that have collaborated in conducting foodborne disease outbreak investigations.
Food-Safe Schools – NEHA, in cooperation with CDC, U.S. Department of Agriculture, and other partner organizations, helps build the capacity of health and education departments to work within coordinated school health programs to prevent foodborne illnesses. The goals of this program are to build a framework of national partnerships, make organizations aware of the numerous resources that exist nationwide, and promote and distribute the Food-Safe Schools Action Guide toolkit.
Industry: Foodborne Illness Investigation Training
(I-FIIT) – Due to the success of NEHA’s Epi-Ready Team Training workshop, we are currently in the development phase of creating a similar one day face-to-face course designed for those in industry at the retail food service, food stores and restaurant level. The purpose of the Industry-Foodborne Illness Investigation Training (I-FIIT) is for industry to establish and implement control measures based on model practices that rapidly and effectively prevent further transmission of illness in response to a foodborne disease incident. This will be accomplished by bringing together retail food service representatives, government food safety officials and other involved personnel to improve foodborne disease outbreak response by identifying industry and regulatory roles and responsibilities during a foodborne disease incident.
In addition to the above programs, NEHA continually seeks potential funding sources and collaborations for food safety education, outreach, and research—for example, NEHA is currently researching funding opportunities on ethnic food safety. NEHA also receives regular funding for food safety education through CDC and the U.S. Food and Drug Administration’s conference support grant programs.
CIFOR Releases
Guidelines for Foodborne Disease Outbreak Response
The
Council to Improve Foodborne Outbreak Response (CIFOR) has
released the
Guidelines for Foodborne Disease Outbreak Response. This
document is the result of an extensive development and review process
involving all key federal agencies and Non-Government Organizations
(NGO's) that represent food safety professionals. NEHA is pleased to
have played a role in this process representing state and local
environmental health food safety professionals. The document provides
detailed information and recommendations for each step in a foodborne
illness outbreak investigation. It will provide environmental health
professionals with comprehensive information, action items, resources
and best practices models to improve detection and response.
Press Release
Download
Guidelines for Foodborne Disease Outbreak Response
NEW! NEHA’s Environmental Health Regulatory Food
Safety Program Capacity Assessment
NEHA and AFDO were
asked to conduct an environmental health (EH) regulatory food safety
program capacity assessment by CIFOR. CIFOR members are interested in
knowing what impacts budget cuts may be having on the capacity of local
and state regulatory food safety programs—and specifically on those
programs that conduct environmental investigations during foodborne
disease outbreaks. This assessment was intended for EH and regulatory
food safety managers and directors who oversee regulatory food safety
programs within local, tribal, and state departments that conduct
environmental investigations during foodborne disease outbreaks. Because
of the urgency to have basic information quickly, an initial assessment
was created using Zoomerang. The assessment was both anecdotal and
qualitative and addressed EH foodborne illness investigation capacity
issues. NEHA, AFDO, and NACCHO disseminated the assessment to EH and
food safety managers and directors. The assessment was launched March
24, 2011, and closed April 8, 2011. The below reports are a
summary and the
complete results
of the
feedback received through the assessment. For more information, please
contact Vanessa De Arman, Project Coordinator, Research and Development,
at
vdearman@neha.org or at 303-756-9090, ext. 311.
Environmental Health Regulatory Food
Safety Program Capacity Assessment: Initial Assessment Results Summary
Environmental Health Regulatory Food
Safety Program Capacity Assessment: Initial Assessment Results
NEHA Joins with MindLeaders
to Provide New Food Safety Training Programs
MindLeaders, Inc. and the National Environmental Health Association (NEHA) have
announced a cooperative agreement that provides for the development and distribution of new online and instructor led food safety training programs.
Handwashing on
Trial: Avoiding a Guilty Verdict
This video of a
mock
trial based on a fictitious outbreak is from NEHA's 2007 Annual Education
Conference & Exhibition in Atlantic City, NJ. See an educational
video and an example of the great opportunities available at our
conferences!
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