Supporting, Assessing, and Promoting the Roles of Health Departments in Retail Food Safety Regulation

全国县市卫生官员协会（NACCHO） RFA-FD-16-019 支持、评估和促进卫生部门在零售食品安全中的作用 条例” 项目总结/摘要 全国县市卫生官员协会（NACCHO）是一个会员组织， 该组织代表全国约2,800个地方卫生部门。 NACCHO致力于保护和改善所有美国人的健康， LHD在促进国家公共卫生政策，开发资源和项目，寻求 卫生公平，并支持有效的地方公共卫生做法和系统。一个组成 这一使命的一部分是致力于食品安全，通过NACCHO的推广， LHD在食品安全监管中的作用，并为综合食品安全做出贡献 与联邦机构和伙伴机构合作，建立了一个系统。拟议的五年倡议规定， 五个关键目标将进一步帮助LHD作为食品安全监管的领导者。这些 包括：（1）增加地方和州卫生部门的参与和遵守 全国范围内的自愿国家零售食品监管计划标准（零售 （2）审查地方一级如何行使食品监管权; (3)探讨零售食品监管计划如何按风险对机构进行分类和检查; (4)评估地方和州卫生部门如何使用零售计划标准 并确定最佳做法;以及（5）确保LHD了解他们在各种 与食品相关的政策问题。NACCHO食品安全工作组（12 LHD 代表来自不同的地理位置和司法管辖区的大小）及其食品安全 代表卫生部门、食品工业和 来自全国各地的学术界将为五年计划提供信息，以帮助确定 NACCHO食品安全计划的优先事项和相关政策更新。为指导 在这些小组和FDA中，NACCHO将开发LHD所必需的工具，以更好地符合 零售计划标准和改善食品安全监管。这个五年计划还将 允许NACCHO分享基于创新努力的成功实施故事 领导人通过这一倡议参与，同时加强了建立的强大的同行网络， 通过指导计划，通信基础设施和研讨会。通过 系统的审查，圆桌讨论，关键的知情人访谈，NACCHO将深化 了解零售食品监管计划如何行使其权力和分配风险 以决定巡查的频密程度。与食品安全 随着现代化法案的规则生效，NACCHO还将探讨这些规则将如何 影响LHD扮演的角色并分享最佳实践。

National Association of County and City Health Officials (NACCHO) RFA-FD-16-019 Supporting, Assessing, and Promoting the Roles of Health Departments in Retail Food Safety Regulation” Project Summary/Abstract The National Association of County and City Health Officials (NACCHO) is a membership organization, representing approximately 2,800 local health departments (LHDs) nationwide. NACCHO strives to protect and improve the health of all Americans by assisting and engaging LHDs in promoting national public health policy, developing resources and programs, seeking health equity, and supporting effective local public health practice and systems. An integral piece of this mission is devoted to food safety, achieved through NACCHO's promotion around the role of LHDs in food safety regulation and contributing toward an integrated food safety system, in collaboration with federal and partner agencies. The proposed five-year initiative lays out five key goals which will further assist LHDs as leaders in food safety regulation. These include: (1) increasing participation and conformance of local and state health departments nationwide to the Voluntary National Retail Food Regulatory Program Standards (Retail Program Standards); (2) examining how food regulatory authority is exercised at the local level; (3) exploring how retail food regulatory programs categorize and inspect establishments by risk; (4) assessing how local and state health departments are using the Retail Program Standards and identifying best practices; and (5) ensuring LHDs understand the role they play in various regulatory food-related policy issues. NACCHO's Food Safety Workgroup (12 LHD representatives from diverse geographical locations and jurisdictional sizes) and its Food Safety Leaders of over 100 individuals representing health departments, the food industry, and academia from across the nation will inform the five-year initiative in an effort to help identify priorities for NACCHO's food safety program and relevant policy updates. Under the guidance of these groups and the FDA, NACCHO will develop tools essential for LHDs to better conform to the Retail Program Standards and improve food safety regulation. This five-year plan will also allow NACCHO to share stories of successful implementation based on the efforts of innovative leaders engaged through this initiative, while strengthening the robust peer network cultivated through the mentorship program, communications infrastructure, and workshops. Through systematic reviews, roundtable discussions, key informant interviews, NACCHO will deepen the understanding of how retail food regulatory programs exercise their authority and assign the risk of retail food establishments to determine frequency of inspections. With the Food Safety Modernization Act's rules coming into effect, NACCHO will also explore how these rules will impact the roles LHDs play and share best practices.