New Local Food Safety Podcast Miniseries

A new of episode the National Association of County and City Health Officials’ (NACCHO) Podcast From Washington highlights how Pima County significantly improved processes for monitoring and responding to foodborne illness outbreaks. Amanda Anderson, Consumer Health and Food Safety Manager at the Pima County Health Department in Arizona and a member of the 2024 Cohort of NACCHO’s Food Safety Mentorship Program under the NEHA-FDA Retail Flexible Funding Model Grant Program, joins NACCHO’s Retail Food Safety Team to discuss how working on Standard 5 of the Voluntary National Retail Food Regulatory Program Standards and with the Council to Improve Foodborne Illness Outbreak Response supported their success.

Find this episode on any podcast platform by searching for the “NACCHO Podcast Series” or by visiting the link below.

This episode is the first in a new monthly mini-series from NACCHO’s Retail Food Safety Team that will share success stories from local retail food safety programs from September 2024 through January 2025. This series will feature 10- to 20-minute interviews of local food safety leaders sharing their experiences developing and implementing new projects and programs that have made major impacts in their efforts to protect public health. Keep an eye on NACCHO’s podcast feed to catch the other episodes as they are released!