Environmental Health Specialists Network(EHS-Net)- Practice Based Research to Improve Food Safety

 描述(由申请人提供)：田纳西州EHS-Net申请2015年食源性病原体导致相当大的疾病负担。田纳西州卫生部认为，参与EHS-Net对于推广安全做法、教育环保主义者和流行病学家进行疫情调查、预防疾病、增加关于食品安全和环境污染的一般性知识以及向公众展示食品安全措施的价值至关重要。该申请将展示我们的EHS-Net目标、我们的EHS-Net成就的历史以及我们未来的EHS-Net计划。我们将继续在EHS-Net食品计划中采取跨部门的方法，为该州两个大型、全面的食品安全计划中的两名全职环保主义者提供支持。这些环境专家和EHS-Net PI和EHS-Net联合PIs将积极为以下列出的田纳西州四个食品安全项目的所有方面做出贡献，并将参加指导委员会和工作组电话会议。新项目将包括：1)评估、促进和实施国家自愿环境评估信息系统(NVEAIS)；2)评估和培训食品机构使用特殊程序的方法；3)在基于投诉的暴发监测系统呼叫者中进行预期的知识、态度和认知调查；4)食源性暴发期间诺沃克病毒的环境采样，对环境健康补救和应对的影响。继续参与多个州的EHS-Net研究也将是一个高度优先事项。

 DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): Tennessee EHS-Net Application 2015 Foodborne pathogens cause substantial burden of illness. The Tennessee Department of Health (TDH) considers involvement in EHS-Net vital to promoting safe practices, educating environmentalists and epidemiologists in outbreak investigation, preventing illness, adding to the body of generalizable knowledge about food safety and environmental contamination, and demonstrating to the public the value of food safety measures. This application will demonstrate our EHS-Net objectives, our history of EHS-Net accomplishments, and our future EHS-Net plans. We will continue the interagency approach in EHS-Net Food Program by supporting two full- time environmentalists in two of the state's large, comprehensive food safety programs. These environmental specialists and the EHS-Net PI and EHS-Net Co-PIs will actively contribute to all aspects of the four Tennessee food safety projects listed below and will participate in steering committee and working group calls. New projects will include the following: 1) evaluate, promote, and implement the National Voluntary Environmental Assessment Information system (NVEAIS); 2) evaluation and training approaches to food establishment use of special processes; 3) prospective knowledge, attitude, and perceptions survey among complaint-based outbreak surveillance system callers; 4) environmental sampling for norovirus during foodborne outbreaks, implications for environmental health remediation and response. Continued participation in multi-state EHS-Net studies will also remain a high priority.