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网络申请2015食源性病原体造成重大疾病负担。田纳西州卫生部（TDH）认为，参与EHS网络对于促进安全做法、教育环境学家和流行病学家进行疫情调查、预防疾病、增加有关食品安全和环境污染的一般知识以及向公众展示食品安全措施的价值至关重要。该应用程序将展示我们的EHS网络目标，我们的EHS网络成就的历史，以及我们未来的EHS网络计划。我们将继续在EHS-净食品计划的机构间方法，支持两个全职环保主义者在国家的两个大，全面的食品安全计划。这些环境专家和EHS-Net PI和EHS-Net Co-PI将积极为下面列出的四个田纳西州食品安全项目的各个方面做出贡献，并将参加指导委员会和工作组的电话会议。新项目将包括以下内容：1）评估、促进和实施国家自愿环境评估信息系统（NVEAIS）; 2）评估和培训食品企业使用特殊工艺的方法; 3）在基于投诉的疫情监测系统呼叫者中进行前瞻性知识、态度和看法调查; 4）食源性暴发期间诺如病毒的环境采样，对环境卫生补救和应对的影响。继续参与多州EHS网络研究也将仍然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.