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FY 2025 Federal Budget Update

December 27, 2024 Before the holiday break Congress passed and President Biden signed a continuing resolution averting a government shutdown. This measure keeps the government operating at FY 2024 funding levels along with more than $110 billion...

State Enacted Body Art Legislation: 2024 Sessions

October 11, 2024 For the 2024 state legislative sessions that began in January 2024, state legislators introduced 64 bills related to body art. Of these bills, 19 were passed and enacted into law. Body art legislation covered topics such as barb...

ֲý Enhances Focus on Students to Build Future Workforce

October 1, 2024Denver, CO – The ֲý (NEHA) has enhanced their focus on student development to focus on engaging students in the environmental health workforce in state, territorial, local, and tribal communi...

Prepare With Us on World ֲý Day

September 26, 2024The 2024 World ֲý Day theme is, “ֲý: Creating Resilient Communities Through Disaster Risk Reduction and Climate Change Mitigation and Adaptation.” To amplify this important message, we are pr...

State Enacted Food Safety Legislation: 2024 Sessions

September 19, 2024 For the 2024 state legislative sessions that began in January 2024, state legislators introduced 250 bills related to food safety. Of these bills, 41 were passed and enacted into law, with another 11 eligible for signing by th...

ֲý Awarded FDA Cooperative Agreement to Advance Retail Food Safety

September 19, 2024FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASEContact: Chana Goussetis, Communications Director Denver, CO – This week, the ֲý (NEHA) was awarded by the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to partner with governmen...

Joe Beck Educational Contribution Award Winner

September 10, 2024 This summer, we awarded the Columbus Public Health ֲý Division in Columbus, Ohio the Joe Beck Educational Contribution Award. As environmental health departments face the difficult hiring landscape, the job ...

Dr. Bailus Walker, Jr. Diversity and Inclusion Award Winner

September 5, 2024 This summer, we awarded Lieutenant Commander (LCDR) Sarah Hughes, MPH, REHS/RS, DAAS, CESM the Dr. Bailus Walker, Jr. Diversity and Inclusion Awareness Award. LCDR Hughes makes tangible impacts to diversity and inclusion throu...

September 2024

Journal of ֲý Volume 87, Number 2 View the IssueAbout the Cover Community-engaged research is becoming more prevalent in environmental health. With a spectrum of community involvement characterizing this research, it has the po...

ֲý Publishes Outcomes of NEHA-FDA Retail Flexible Funding Model Grant Program

August 13, 2024 Denver, CO – Foodborne illness costs the U.S. economy more than $15 billion each year in associated medical expenses and lost workplace productivity. The ֲý (NEHA), the nation’s ...

The Pandemic and All-Hazards Preparedness Reauthorization Act

September 5, 2023 The Pandemic and All-Hazards Preparedness Reauthorization Act (PAHPRA) undergoes review and is reauthorized by Congress every 5 years, the first time in 2018 and again at the end of September 2023. Congress has mark...

FDA Appoints Deputy Commissioner for Human Foods Program

August 29, 2023 The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has announced the appointment of James “Jim” Jones as the first-ever deputy commissioner for the Human Foods Program. As deputy commissioner of the Human Foods Program, J...

House and Senate Appropriators Remain Far Apart on Fiscal Year 2024 Budgets

August 25, 2023 Congressional appropriators remain where they were earlier this summer regarding budgets that affect environmental health. Not much movement on the appropriation budgets for the Centers for Disease Control and...

September 2023: Direct From CDC/ֲý Services

September 2023Volume 86, Number 2 Editor's Note: The ֲý strives to provide up-to-date and relevant information on environmental health and to build partnerships in the profession. In pursuit of these goals,...

September 2023

Journal of ֲý Volume 86, Number 2 View This IssueArticles A Collaborative Approach to National Food Code AdoptionFederal Meat and Poultry Inspection Duties and Requirements—Part 4: Food Defense, Product Sampling, Rules of Pract...