CDC Environmental Health Nexus Newsletter
Healthy Environment, Healthy You
September 12, 2022 | Volume 13
Environmental Health Nexus
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s (CDC) Environmental Health Nexus (EH Nexus) shares environmental health messages with the public and gives special attention to environmental justice.
EH Nexus newsletters provide information about environmental health issues and offers information that promotes actions to help save lives. The newsletters communicate how to reduce harm from public health threats, including climate change, contaminated food and water, toxic environments, and inadequate systems and practices.
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September is Food Safety Month
Here is How You Can get Involved:
1. Join our Food Safety Webinar
Join us for an engaging food safety webinar, Set the Table: Improving Restaurant Food Safety through Science and Practice. You’ll hear from Dr. Laura Brown and Lieutenant Commander Beth Wittry from CDC and Ms. Thuy Kim from the University of Minnesota. They will share information on key CDC training and surveillance resources for outbreaks, along with exciting new research findings on restaurant food safety.
The webinar will be held Tuesday, September 13, from 1 to 2 p.m. Eastern Time.
Webinar hosted by CDC’s Environmental Health Nexus.
2. Attended the 2022 FDA Retail Food Protection Seminar
Join this free conference to discuss current and emerging issues related to retail food safety. This year’s discussion will focus on norovirus, including assessing employee health, investigating norovirus related foodborne illnesses, and implementing successful employee health intervention strategies.
3. Explore our Environmental Assessment Training Series (EATS) 101
Take this training to learn concepts, key skills, and steps for environmental assessments of restaurants implicated in an outbreak.
Complete simulated exercises to practice
- Interviewing food workers,
- Collecting environmental samples, and
- Determining how and why germs got into the environment and spread.
4. Review the Root Causes of Clostridium Perfringens Outbreaks
Read this research summary to learn about the three underlying root causes that precede C. perfringens outbreaks.
5. Learn how Restaurant Grading and Posting Relate to Outbreak Rates
Read our new paper on restaurant grading practices and outbreaks. We learned jurisdictions that posted inspection results
- at restaurants had fewer outbreaks than those that only posted results online, and
- as letter grades had fewer outbreaks than those where grades weren’t used.
Explore More Food Safety Month Resources
Check out more food safety tools, training, and research for environmental health professionals from CDC and partners.
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