National Programs

In partnership with the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention the Tennessee Department of Health Foodborne and Enteric Disease Program is funded to participate in various national food safety initiatives that help public health professionals and communities understand trends in foodborne illness and develop improved methods to detect and investigate foodborne outbreaks.

To learn more follow the links below.

Integrated Food Safety Center of Excellence
The Integrated Food Safety Centers of Excellence (CoEs) is a CDC program started in 2012 under the authority of the Food Safety Modernization Act. The CoEs provide peer assistance and training to support state and local health departments to build their capacity to track and investigate enteric diseases. Click on the link to learn more and find a variety of outbreak investigation trainings and resources.

FoodNet
FoodNet provides a foundation for food safety policy and prevention efforts. It estimates the number of foodborne illnesses, monitors trends in incidence of specific foodborne illnesses over time, attributes illnesses to specific foods and settings, and disseminates this information.

FoodCore
Foodborne Diseases Centers for Outbreak Response Enhancement (FoodCORE) centers work together to develop new and better methods to detect, investigate, respond to, and control multistate outbreaks of foodborne diseases. Efforts are primarily focused on outbreaks caused by bacteria, including Salmonella, Shiga toxin-producing E. coli, and Listeria. The ability to detect and investigate viral and parasitic foodborne disease outbreaks will also be strengthened.

EHS-Net
EHS-Net is a collaborative forum of environmental health specialists that researches restaurant food safety policies and practices.

CaliciNet
CaliciNet is a national norovirus outbreak surveillance network of federal, state, and local public health laboratories. The information collected through CaliciNet helps public health professionals better understand noroviruses and develop interventions to prevent them from spreading.

Other National Programs

National Antimicrobial Resistance Monitoring System for Enteric Bacteria (NARMS) - This national public health surveillance system tracks changes in the antimicrobial susceptibility of certain enteric (intestinal) bacteria found in ill people (CDC), retail meats (FDA), and food animals (USDA) in the United States. The NARMS program at CDC helps protect public health by providing information about emerging bacterial resistance, the ways in which resistance is spread, and how resistant infections differ from susceptible infections. To learn more click here.

National Respiratory and Enteric Virus Surveillance System (NREVSS) - This national laboratory-based system monitors patterns of respiratory and enteric viruses. Participating U.S. laboratories voluntarily report weekly to CDC the total number of weekly aggregate tests performed to detect there viruses and the aggregate positive tests. NREVSS allows for timely analysis of data to monitor viral seasons and circulation patterns. To learn more click here.