Food Safety -

Epidemiological Alerts Archives, 2003–2008

CE142/DIV/3 - Updated Strategic Plan

Health Surveillance and Disease Prevention and Control at PAHO

VPH News (Year 2, No. 4, May 2008)

VPH News: Communication Channel of the PAHO Veterinary Public Health Unit

RIMSA 15: Inter-American Meeting at Ministerial Level on Health and Agriculture (Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, 11–12 June 2008)

RIMSA: Inter-American Meeting, at Ministerial Level, on Health and Agriculture

RIMSA 14: Index of Documents

VPH News (Year 2, No. 3, January 2008)

VPH News (Year 1, No. 2, September/October 2007)

VPH News: (Year 1, No. 1, July 2007)

PAHO Regional Program on Food Safety: Working to Prevent and Control Food-Borne Diseases

Regional Program on Antimicrobial Resistance: Combatting Resistance to Antibiotics in the Americas

Food Safety and Foodborne Illness (WHO Fact Sheet No. 237)

Foodborne Diseases, Emerging (WHO Fact Sheet No. 124)

Drug-Resistant Salmonella (WHO Fact Sheet No. 139)

Cholera (WHO Fact Sheet No. 107)

Use of antimicrobials outside human medicine and resultant antimicrobial resistance in humans (WHO Fact Sheet No. 268)

The 5 Key Ways Project: Adapting the WHO Manual on Food Safety for Use in Guatemalan Elementary Schools

Progress made in the Project on Adaptation and Validation of the 5 Key Ways Manual on Food Safety in Elementary Schools in Guatemala

Activity Book, The 5 key ways to keep your food safe (Teacher's Guide)

The 5 key ways to keep your food safe (Content Manual)

How to make a plan for safe food in my school? The 5 key ways to have a school with safe food and water: Manual for the Parent Advisory Council

PAHO/WHO Collaborating Centers in the Area of Food Safety

Almost a quarter of all disease caused by environmental exposure

Preventing disease through healthy environments: Towards an estimate of the environmental burden of disease

Veterinary Public Health at PAHO

Avian Influenza

A Guide to Healthy Food Markets

Foodborne Pathogens and Disease

Animal Health: Avian Influenza

Avian and Human Influenza

World Organisation for Animal Health (OIE)

Situation Updates— Avian Influenza

Avian Influenza and Food Safety: Statement by Dr. LEE Jong-Wook, WHO Director-General

WHO Guidance on Public Health Measures in Countries Experiencing Their First Outbreaks of H5N1 Avian Influenza

Food Safety Experts Agree Plan to Improve Food Safety in the Americas and Caribbean

Brasilia Declaration

WHO recommendations relating to travellers coming from and going to countries experiencing outbreaks of highly pathogenic H5N1 avian influenza

Highly Pathogenic H5N1 Avian Influenza Outbreaks in Poultry and in Humans: Food Safety Implications

Avian Influenza Frequently Asked Questions

Key Facts About Avian Influenza (Bird Flu) and Avian Influenza A (H5N1) Virus

Hemispheric Conference on the Surveillance and Prevention of Avian Influenza (Brasília, Brazil, 30 November– 2 December 2005)

Avian Influenza: Frequently Asked Questions (Weekly Epidemiological Record 80:44, pp. 377-384)

Influenza: Technical Module (Peru)

PANAFTOSA Bibliographical Database, Veterinary Public Health Virtual Library (VHS)

Regional Events Directory, Veterinary Public Health

Avian Influenza Resource Sites

CD46/11-Strategy for the Future of the Pan American Centers: Technical Cooperation in Food Safety PAHO/WHO 2006-2007

CD46/10-Strategy for the Future of the Pan American Centers: Current Status of the Centers

RIMSA14/5-Report on the 10th Meeting of the Hemispheric Committee for the Eradication of Foot-and-Mouth Disease (COHEFA10)

RIMSA14/7-Report on the 4th Meeting of the Pan American Commission for Food Safety (COPAIA 4)

RIMSA14/25-Central American Regional Cooperation in Health and Agriculture—Catalytic Role of the Specialized Regional Agencies

Final Report and Proceedings: 14th Inter-American Meeting, at the Ministerial Level, on Health and Agriculture (RIMSA 14) (Mexico City, Mexico, 21–22 April 2005)

RIMSA14/9-Community Participation in the Food Production Chain and Food Safety

RIMSA14/INF/6-Report on the Caribbean Food Safety Initiative: Modernization of the Legislative Framework for Food Safety, Animal Health and Plant Health

RIMSA14/12-Special Support to Small Island States in Capacity Building for Food Safety and International Trade

RIMSA14/11

RIMSA14/INF/3-Current Status of Genetically Modified Foods

RIMSA14/17-Inter-Country Cooperation in the International Food Trade-Implications for Health and Development

RIMSA14/22-Empowering and Expanding the Role of Women in Food Security and Local Development

RIMSA14/INF/2-The Houston Declaration

RIMSA14/21-Agricultural and Livestock Policy: Science and Technology Applied to the Food Chain

RIMSA14/3

RIMSA14/10-Appropriate Technology: Small Producers and Food Security

RIMSA14/20-Agricultural Health and Sustainable Rural Development

RIMSA14/16

RIMSA14/15-Initiatives on Food Safety, Food Security, and Transboundary Animal Diseases

Caribbean Schools' Food & Nutrition Quiz and Nutrition Promotion Competitions

NYAM NEWS November 1&2, 2004 - Organic foods

NYAM NEWS October 1&2, 2004 - The acrylamide scare

CD45.R8: Disaster Preparedness and Response

Informal Consultation on Influenza Pandemic Preparedness in Countries with Limited Resources (Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, 23–25 June 2004)

Campylobacter

WHO Consultation on Priority Public Health Interventions before and during an Influenza Pandemic (Geneva, 27 April 2004)

Public health response to biological and chemical weapons

Influenza

Avian Influenza A (H5N1) in Humans and in Poultry in Asia: Food Safety Considerations

Virtual Library in Veterinary Public Health (VHL PANAFTOSA)

EID Weekly Updates: Emerging and Reemerging Infectious Diseases, Region of the Americas, Vol. 2, No. 2—15 January 2004

Avian Influenza

Salmonella

Shigella

NYAM NEWS January 1&2, 2004 - Functional foods

EID Weekly Updates: Emerging and Reemerging Infectious Diseases, Region of the Americas, Vol. 1, No. 26 - 31 December 2003

Final Report for Reform of the Jamaica School Feeding Programme - A Pilot Project

The Prime of Life: Ages 25 - 64 years.

Bacteriological assessment of fresh artisan cheeses sold in Lima, Peru, and the presumed bactericidal action of Lactobacillus spp.

Zoonoses and Communicable Diseases Common to Man and Animals, 3rd edition. Vol. II Chlamydioses, Rickettsioses, and Viroses

Zoonoses and Communicable Diseases Common to Man and Animals, 3rd edition. Vol. III Parasitoses

CAJANUS Vol. 36, No. 4, 2003 - Promoting Nutrition through Competition

Sources of exposure to and public health implications of organophosphate pesticides

EID Weekly Updates: Emerging and Reemerging Infectious Diseases, Region of the Americas, Vol. 1, No. 5—8 August 2003

Risk of Growth and Toxin Production by Clostridium botulinum Nonproteolytic Types B, C and F in Salmon Filets Stored under Modified Atmospheres (MA) at Low and Abused Temperatures

Fish-Kill Outbreak in the Southern Caribbean: Epidemiology and Public-Health Impact

CAJANUS Vol. 36, No. 3, 2003 - HIV / AIDS

Fact Sheet: Primary Care in an Indigenous Community of Chorotes (Tartagal, Province of Salta, Argentina)

Photo Gallery: Primary Care in an Indigenous Community of Chorotes (Tartagal, Province of Salta, Argentina)

NYAM NEWS April 1&2, 2003 - Getting the best out of your microwave oven

PAHO Today - June 2003 Edition

Zoonoses / Animal Health

Food Safety

Strategic Alliance IICA/PAHO for Human Development and Prosperity in Rural Communities

RIMSA13/21 - Report on the 9th Meeting of COHEFA

RIMSA13/22-Report on the 3rd COPAIA, 2003

RIMSA13/19-Rural Development

RIMSA13/15 - IICA/PAHO Strategic Alliance

RIMSA13/6 - Fresh products

RIMSA13/17 - Strategy on Poverty Reduction

RIMSA13/9 - Livestock and Livestock Products

The Derrick B. Jelliffe Library (DBJL) of CFNI

RIMSA13/16 - Public and Private Goods in a Global Market

RIMSA13/14 - Report on the Codex Alimentarius

RIMSA13/11 - Food Safety: Challenges and opportunities facing production of livestock and livestock products

RIMSA13/5 - Proposed Plan of Action for INPPAZ, 2004-2005

RIMSA13/10 - Report on the Regional Meeting on Foods Genetically Modified

RIMSA13/7 - Caribbean Food Safety Initiative

RIMSA13/12 - Food Safety and Trade

RIMSA13/13 - The expanding mandate of the OIE

RIMSA13/INF/1 - Report of the Regional Meeting on Genetically Modified Foods

Operations and Procedures Manual for the Reform of the Jamaica School Feeding program (Pilot Phase)

RIMSA13/3 - Report of the Program on Veterinary Public Health

RIMSA13/8 - The Seafood Industry

Public Health Surveillance in the Americas: National Epidemiological Surveillance and Statistical Information Systems

Cooperating in Veterinary Public Health. Quadrennial Report of the Director, Centennial Edition

Towards the Nassau Declaration - Nutrition in Mental Health, Non-communicable Diseases and HIV/AIDS: the Evidence and the Challenge

IIntersectoral Coordination between Health & Agriculture: Zoonoses, Food Safety and Foot-and-Mouth Disease (final report and proceedings: XII Inter-American Meeting at the Ministerial Level on Health & Agriculture, 2001).

Technical Guidelines for Disaster Situations - Index

Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy (BSE) and Its Risks: Animal and Public Health, International Trade

Bulletin of the Pan American Foot-and-Mouth Disease Center

Zoonoses and Communicable Diseases Common to Man and Animals, 3rd edition. Vol. I Bacterioses and Mycoses

RIMSA12/7 - Community Participation in the Development of Healthy Markets

What We Do at CFNI

Technical Guidelines for Disaster Situations - Food Safety

Pan American Journal of Public Health/Revista Panamericana de Salud Pública

XIth Inter-American Meeting, at the Ministerial Level, on Animal Health (RIMSA) (Washington, D.C., 13–15 April 1999)

Healthy Homes, Healthy Communities: An Environmental Health Manual for Use by your Family and Community

Crónicas de Desastres: Terremoto de Aiquile, Cochabamba, Bolivia (only in Spanish)

Viral contamination of food products: a poorly understood public health problem

Viral contamination of food products: a poorly understood public health problem

Perspectives in Health - Volume 2, Number 2, 1997