Publications

Summaries and publications

Outbreak investigations

Key Findings from Investigation Data

Explore key findings about the environmental component of foodborne illness outbreak investigations.

Investigation Publications

Explore our publications about food safety investigations.

Restaurant practices

Key Findings on Restaurant Practices

Explore key findings from our research on restaurant food safety practices.

Aug 19, 2026

Practice Publications

Read more about food safety practices to prevent foodborne outbreaks.

July 22, 2026

Other retail food safety publications

Brown L, Smith C, Wildey L. Protecting retail food safety by strengthening partnerships and collaboration. [commentary] J Environ Health. 2022;84(7):32-4.

Byrne M, Laird T, Benschoter B, Wolfe J, McSwane D, Varma A, et al. Retail collaborative provides tools and resources to drive food safety. [commentary] J Environ Health. 2023;86(2):38–40.

Coleman E, Brown L. Environmental Assessment Training Series (EATS): Practical training for food safety officials hungry to enhance environmental assessment skills. [commentary] J Environ Health. 2018;81(2):44-6.

Green LR, Selman C, Scallan E, Jones TF, Marcus R, EHS-Net Population Working Group. Beliefs about meals eaten outside the home as sources of gastrointestinal illness. J Food Prot. 2005;68(10):2184-9.

Viveiros B, Caron G, Barkley J, Philo E, Odom S, Wenzel J, et al. Cake decorating luster dust associated with toxic metal poisonings — Rhode Island and Missouri, 2018–2019. MMWR. 2021; 70(43);1501-4. (Brown L)

Waltenburg MA, Victoroff T, Rose CE, Butterfield M, Jervis RH, Fedak KM, et al. Update: COVID-19 among workers in meat and poultry processing facilities―United States, April–May 2020. MMWR. 2020;69:887-92. (Zarate-Bermudez M)

Wildey LM, Laird T, Brown LG, O'Malley E, Gridley-Smith CL, Nutt E, et al. A collaborative approach to national Food Code adoption. J Environ Health. 2023;86(2):22–25.

Wittry B, Mack J. Food safety: Environmental health data matter. [commentary] J Environ Health. 2019;82(2):34-6.

Wittry BC, Hoover ER, Pomeroy MA, Dumas BL, Marshall KE, Yellman MA, et al. Characteristics associated with US adults' self-reported COVID-19 protective behaviors when getting food from restaurants, winter 2021. Public Health Rep. 2022;137(4):660-71. (Brown LG)