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- Food and Cosmetic Guidance Documents [external link] – links to current food and cosmetic guidance documents
- Managing Food Safety: A Manual for the Voluntary Use of HACCP Principles for Operators of Food Service and Retail Establishments [external link] [PDF 612 KB]
- Managing Food Safety: A Regulator's Manual For Applying HACCP Principles to Risk-based Retail and Food Service Inspections and Evaluating Voluntary Food Safety Management Systems [external link] [PDF 776 KB]
- ORA U [external link] – Office of Regulatory Affairs Web-based training to protect the American consumer
- Food Safety and Inspection Service [external link] – information about food safety and food inspections
- Nutrient Data Laboratory [external link] – tool to search for information about food
EHS-Net – links environmental health specialists with epidemiologists and laboratorians to identify and prevent environmental factors contributing to foodborne and waterborne illness and disease outbreaks
Food Safety Office – prevents foodborne illnesses and death
Foodborne and Diarrheal Diseases – telephone health survey system that tracks health conditions and risk behaviors in the United States
Foodborne Illnesses – links to information about foodborne illnesses
Food Net – (Foodborne Diseases Active Surveillance Network) – surveillance for foodborne diseases and related epidemiologic studies to help public health officials better understand the epidemiology of foodborne diseases in the United States
Food Protection – This section from Emergency and Terrorism Preparedness for Environmental Health Practitioners provides specific information on how practitioners can effectively prevent and respond to foodborne outbreaks and emphasizes food-security related issues
The Need for Partnerships for Food Safety [PDF 167 KB] – how to prevent or reduce much of the burden of illness due to unsafe food by working in partnerships. This is one in a series of monthly Environmental Health Services Branch columns in the Journal of Environmental Health.
Pioneering Food Safety in the Last Frontier [DOC 464 KB] – regulation of food establishments that does not rely solely on inspections by encouraging operators to implement food safety management systems and using a systems review approach during inspections. This is one in a series of reports prepared by a graduate of CDC’s Environmental Public Health Leadership Institute.
Procedures, Training and Verification: A Method to Reduce the Incidence and Reoccurrence of Out of Control Food-Borne Illness Risk Factor and Food Code Intervention Violations on Inspections [DOC 112 KB] – development of a new method that relies on food-service personnel for the control of foodborne illness risk factors rather than on regulatory inspections for control. This is one in a series of reports prepared by a graduate of CDC’s Environmental Public Health Leadership Institute.
PulseNet – network of laboratories that perform standardized molecular subtyping (“fingerprinting”) of foodborne disease-causing bacteria
Unlicensed Food Vendors, A Different Approach [DOC 1.64 MB] – explore options to combat or persuade unlicensed food vendors to comply and partner with the Oklahoma State Department of Health to ensure safe, unadulterated food. This is one in a series of reports prepared by a graduate of CDC’s Environmental Public Health Leadership Institute.
Links to information from outside CDC
Bioterrorist Attack on Food [external link] (Northwest Center for Public Health Practice) – tabletop exercise to address agency-wide policies and issues
Food and Drug Administration [external link] (Food and Drug Administration)
Food Safety Internet Resource Directory [external link] [PDF 52 KB] (Indian Health Service) – document listing Web sites about food safety
Food Safety Resource Board [external link] (National Association of County and City Health Officials) – tool to search for information about food safety programs
Foodsafety.gov [external link] (Food and Drug Administration) – information about food safety
Introduction to Outbreak Investigation [external link] (Northwest Center for Public Health Practice) – online training module outlines specific steps to take in determining if you have an outbreak, how to communicate your findings to the public via the media, and more
National Assessment of Epidemiologic Capacity in Food Safety: Findings and Recommendations [external link] [PDF 384 KB] (Council of State and Territorial Epidemiologists) – report on the project to develop core competencies for foodborne outbreak and response by focusing on epidemiologic and laboratory capacity
The Role of the Model Food Code in Preventing Foodborne Illness [external link] [PDF 336 KB] (Association of State and Territorial Health Officials) – document about the model Food Code for retail food establishments
United States Department of Agriculture [external link]
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