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Department of Health:
Division of Environmental Health
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Facilities and Services Licensing  
Food Service Regulations include:

• Hotels, Motels, Inns, Bed and Breakfasts (3 + rooms)
• Hospitals, Treatment Facilities, Prisons
• Community Colleges, Ferries, Resorts, Retreats

Public Health Laboratory

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Other Washington State Agencies:
Washington State Department of Agriculture
Regulated Food Service-Related Items Include:

• Food Processors, Wholesale Food Suppliers
• Dairy Farms, Custom Meat Facilities
• Eggs

Department of Social and Health Services
Regulated Food Services Include:

• Child care centers 
• Adult and family homes

Washington State Liquor Control Board
Regulated Food Service-Related Items Include:

• Alcohol
• Tobacco

Department of Labor and Industries
Food Service-Related Items Include:

• Workplace Rights, Safety and Claims
• Teen Workers

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Federal Agencies

Food Safety:  Who Does What in the United States 
     Food safety responsibilities of organizations in the United States.

Food and Drug Administration (FDA)

     FDA Retail Food Program

Food Recalls (FDA and USDA) for consumers

United States Department of Agriculture (USDA)
     Food Safety and Inspection Service

Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)
Food Safety Information

• Diseases Transmitted Through the Food Supply (pdf 37 kb)
  The annually-updated list of infectious and communicable diseases that can be transmitted through the food supply.

• Food-Related Illness and Death in the United States
  Link to 1999 article in the Emerging Infectious Diseases Journal.  The authors estimate that foodborne diseases cause approximately 76 million illnesses, 325,000 hospitalizations, and 5,000 deaths in the United States each year.
• Foodborne Disease in the United States
  Searchable database of foodborne illness reported in the United States from 1990-1995.  Search by etiology, location, month, year, or other key words.

National Food Safety Database 

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Associations

Association of Food and Drug Officials
National Environmental Health Association
Washington State Environmental Health Association; 
Washington Restaurant Association  
Washington Food Industry
 

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Educational Sites 

FDA ORAU

Food Safety Information in Other Languages Food Safety Web

Food Recalls (FDA and USDA) for consumers

Washington State University Cooperative Extension
WSU Cooperative Extension - Food Safety

CDC’s It’s a SNAP Program

• SNAP (School Network for Absentee Prevention) is a hands-on initiative designed to help keep students in school by improving overall health through clean hands.

FDA’s “Bad Bug Book”

• Information about E. coli, Salmonella, and other causes of foodborne illness

FDA and USDA Is it Done Yet? campaign for food safety education

FDA and USDA Food Safety Information Center

• Non-English Food Safety Resources
• Food Safety Materials Database
• Food Safety Graphics
• Food Safety Education Stories

Partnership for Food Safety’s Fight Bac! Program

• Food Safety Education Materials for Consumers, Media and Health Professional

School Food Safety Web site  National Coalition for Food-Safe Schools

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      Last Update : 10/26/2007 10:40 AM