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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:

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.

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.

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.

NEHA Wants to Hear from You!
Have you taken a foodborne disease outbreak detection and investigation training course? If so, we want to hear about it!

NEHA needs your assistance! NEHA is an active member of CIFOR (Council to Improve Foodborne Outbreak Response)—other members of CIFOR include AFDO, APHL, ASTHO, CSTE, NACCHO, FDA, USDA, and CDC). CIFOR needs your help in developing a current listing of local, state, and federal training courses on foodborne disease outbreak detection and investigation. CIFOR’s long term goal in this area is to increase the availability of foodborne disease training courses to local, state, and federal staff across the United States.

Here is how you can help: If you have participated in a foodborne disease outbreak detection and investigation training course, or you are aware of a course that someone else has taken, please consider calling us to share the course information with the CIFOR Training Work Group through a brief ten-minute phone conversation. We will ask you about the name of the course; the general areas covered in the course; who developed, sponsored, and taught the course; and availability of any course materials.

During June and July 2008, please call or email your phone number and Elizabeth will call you:
Elizabeth Bugden, Food Safety Consultant, bugdene@comcast.net, 603.625.2606 or 617.686.9203.

Thank you! CIFOR appreciates your participation!

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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