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The Michigan Legislature created the modern Michigan Occupational Safety and Health Act, Public Act 154 of 1974, in order to better prevent workplace injuries, illnesses and fatalities in Michigan by: setting and enforcing occupational safety and health standards; promoting safety and health training and education; and working with partners to develop innovative programs to prevent workplace ...
The Department of Community Health was created in 1996 through an executive order merging Department of Public Health (as Community Public Health Agency), Department of Mental Health, Medical Services Administration from the Department of Social Services, responsibility for Liquor Control Commission, Licensing, Monitoring and Accreditation and Division of Occupational Health from Department of ...
NSF International, originally named the National Sanitation Foundation (NSF), was founded in 1944 by the University of Michigan School of Public Health, in an attempt to standardize requirements around sanitation and food safety. [1] The first standards developed by the NSF set sanitation requirements on soda fountain and luncheonette equipment.
Michigan Department of Licensing and Regulation, abolished by Governor Engler with most of the department transfer to the Department of Commerce until Commerce was split up with the former L&R powers transferred to the Department of Consumer and Industry Services [1] Michigan Department of Labor; Michigan Department of Mental Health; Department ...
The Food Safety and Inspection Service (FSIS), an agency of the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA), is the public health regulatory agency responsible for ensuring that United States' commercial supply of meat, poultry, and egg products is safe, wholesome, and correctly labeled and packaged.
Food safety (or food hygiene) is used as a scientific method/discipline describing handling, preparation, and storage of food in ways that prevent foodborne illness.The occurrence of two or more cases of a similar illness resulting from the ingestion of a common food is known as a food-borne disease outbreak. [1]
It is part of the Food Safety and Inspection Service of the United States Department of Agriculture and is based in the Claude Pepper Federal Building in Miami, Florida. FSIA cooperates with the University of Florida, Miami-Dade College, Pan American Health Organization, and agriculture and food safety agencies in various countries in the Americas.
The county was established on April 1, 1840, by act of the Michigan State legislature. [4] However, its governing structure was not completed until 1881. [1] The name is a Henry Rowe Schoolcraft neologism, thought to be a combination of two Ojibwa words, "ossin" (stone) and "muskoda" (prairie) – hence 'pebbly prairie.' [5] He served as the US Indian agent and was also a geographer, surveying ...