Food Safety
Resource Brief

Websites

• Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics: Home Food Safety. Tips, teaching tools, and Spanish-language materials about foodborne-illness and safe food handling at home.
  
  
• Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC): Food Safety. Information about foodborne illness prevention and investigation for health professionals and consumers. Includes fact sheets, advertisements, and social media tools about food safety.
  
  
• Council to Improve Foodborne Outbreak Response (CIFOR): Food Safety Clearinghouse. Case studies, evaluations, fact sheets, issue briefs, professional-education resources, consumer-education materials, and other food safety resources developed by state and local health departments, laboratories, academic institutions, non-governmental organizations, and governmental agencies.
  
  
• Environmental Working Group (EWG): Our Food. Information, testimony, news, and other resources about pesticides in fruits and vegetables, toxins in seafood, and industrial chemicals in foods and their packaging.
  
  
• Food and Drug Administration (FDA): Food Safety. Product-specific safety information about seafood, fruits, vegetables, milk, canned foods, and infant formula. Information about food recalls, food allergens, foodborne illness, food contaminants and adulteration, microbiological safety of foods, and retail food protection.
  
  
• Food Safety and Inspection Service (FSIS). Food-safety-education materials; information about research, recalls, defense against microbiological agents, and international food standards; and regulations and policies to ensure that meat, poultry, and processed egg products are safe, wholesome, and accurately labeled.
  
  
• FoodSafety.gov. Food safety information in English and Spanish from federal agencies. Includes food safety alerts and recalls, steps for keeping food safe, facts about food poisoning, and an ask-the-experts service for questions about food safety. Also presents EdNet: The National Food Safety Educator's Network, a monthly electronic news journal about food safety and nutrition programs, activities, and resources for educators, consumer advocates, government officials, and industry representatives.
  
  
• Food Safety Research Information Office (FSRIO). Food-safety-research information. Includes a research projects database, and education and training materials database, and citations for journal articles and reports. Topics include pathogens and contaminants, sanitation and quality standards, emergency preparedness and management, food preparation and handling, and food processing and technology.
  
  
• President's Food Safety Working Group. 2011. The Federal Food Safety Working Group Progress Report. Washington, DC: The White House.
  
  
• Riviere JE, Gillian JB, eds. 2012. Ensuring Safe Foods and Medical Products Through Stronger Regulatory Systems Abroad. Washington, DC: National Academies Press. [Report, Brief, Video clip].
  

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Food Safety: Resource Brief. (September 2012).
Author: Susan Brune Lorenzo, M.L.S., MCH Library.
Reviewers: Arissa K. Anderson, M.P.H. and R.D. candidate, University of Minnesota, Twin Cities; Stephanie Loup, M.P.H. and R.D. candidate, University of Minnesota; Shree Mohanty, M.A., M.S., R.D., L.D., Maternal and Child Health Bureau, Region V; Olivia Pickett, M.A., M.L.S., MCH Library; Bridget L. Wardley, M.S., R.D., C.S.P., New York University Steinhardt.
Editor: Ruth Barzel, M.A., MCH Library.