Epi-Ready Team Training Wins 2008 Food Safety Leadership Award From NSF International

By Anonymous

NSF International (NSF) announced that NEHAs Epi-Ready Team Training is a 2008 recipient of the Food Safety Leadership Award in Education and Training. NSF’s Food Safety Leadership Awards program recognizes key individuals and organizations who have demonstrated outstanding leadership in foodservice safety. As part of its ongoing commitment to help protect the public from foodborne illness, each year NSF recognizes groundbreaking food safety achievements. NEHA’s Epi-Ready Team Training workshop is a face-to-face training opportunity offered to environmental and other health professionals. The goal of this training is for all health professionals to work together in rapidly identifying and investigating a foodborne disease outbreak to allow for implementation of control measures that reduce the incidence of foodborne illness. The workshop includes lectures and interactive group exercises on passive surveillance, outbreak determination, environmental assessment, epidemiologic investigation, laboratory guidance, concluding actions, and food defense. To date, workshops have been conducted in 20 different locations and over 1,200 students in 46 states have been trained in the principles of outbreak investigation.

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