JPHMP Direct October 13, 2022
This article published in the Journal of Public Health Management and Practice highlights some of the difficulties maintaining routine retail food inspections during public health emergencies and lessons learned for prioritizing retail food regulatory practices during a significant public health event.
Local health departments (LHDs) throughout the United States have been greatly impacted by the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic. One area that had significant disruption of normal activities was food safety and retail food regulatory practices such as routine food inspections. Protecting food safety within retail food establishments is critical to promoting safe food consumption and preventing foodborne illness outbreaks. A food contamination event at a retail food establishment, more likely when food regulatory practices are reduced, has the potential to...
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