Many people do not think about food safety until a food-related illness affects them or a family member. While the food supply in the United States is one of the safest in the world, CDC estimates that 76 million people get sick, more than 300,000 are hospitalized, and 5,000 Americans die each year from foodborne illness. Preventing foodborne illness and death remains a major public health challenge.

• CDC Food Safety Office
  The mission of the Food Safety Office is to lead CDC's food safety program to prevent illness, disability and death due to domestic and imported foodborne diseases.
• Clean Hand Coalition
  The Clean Hands Coalition is a unified alliance of public and private partners working together to create and support coordinated, sustained initiatives to significantly improve health and save lives through clean hands.
• Federal Citizen Information Center
  This website includes many educational materials free of charge on nutrition and food safety.
• Foodsafety.gov
  This website is a Gateway to government food safety information.
• Food Safety and Sanitation Training
  The University of Connecticut, Department of Nutritional Sciences was awarded a United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) grant in food safety to develop a food safety distance education course for food handlers. Through grant funding they were able to develop a distance education course for food handlers in English, Spanish, and Vietnamese.
• Food Safety Risk Analysis Clearninghouse
  The Clearing House mission, as described is to establish a clearinghouse that would collect and catalogue available data and methodology on food safety risk analysis offered by the private sector, trade associations, federal and state agencies, and international sources.
• Food Safety First - Food Safety Training
  An online education program designed to help you and your students gain food safety knowledge, safe food handling practices, and critical thinking skills.
• International HACCP Alliance
  The mission of the HACCP alliance is to promote international public health and food safety by facilitating uniform development and implementation of HACCP program from Farm to table.
• NEHA Food Safety Education Resources
  The National Environmental Health Training is a limited-liability corporation established as a partnership between the NEHA and Chadwick House Group Limited. NEHA Training's objective is to strengthen the foundation of food safety training in the United States by establishing a nationwide network of registered food safety trainers and by providing effective learning materials to trainers, managers, and employees in the food service industry.
• Partnership for Food Safety Education
  The Fight BAC! Campaign , developed in conjunction with the President's National Food Safety Initiative, is a far-reaching, ambitious and consumer-friendly public education campaign focused on safe food handling.
• USDA's 2009 FDA Food Code
  The Code is a reference document for regulatory agencies that oversee food safety in food service establishments, retail food stores, other food establishments at the retail level, and institutions, such as nursing homes and child care centers. This Code establishes definitions; sets standards for management and personnel, food operations, and equipment and facilities; and provides for food establishment plan review, permit issuance, inspection, employee restriction, and permit suspension.
• USDA/FDA Center for Food Safety and Applied Nutrition
  The CFSAC is a division of the FDA and provides information related to government food safety.
• USDA/FDA Foodborne Illness Education
  The USDA/FDA Foodborne Illness Education Information Center provides information about foodborne illness prevention to educators, trainers, and organizations developing education and training materials for food workers and consumers.
• USDA Food Safety Inspection Service
  FSIS is the public health agency in the USDA responsible for ensuring the nation's commercial supply of meat, poultry, and egg products is safe, wholesome, and correctly labeled and packaged.
• USDA's Managing Food Safety Manual
  USDA's Managing Food Safety: A Manual for the Voluntary Use of HACCP Principles for Operators of Food Service and Retail Establishments provides you with a "roadmap" for writing and voluntarily implementing a food safety management system based on Hazard Analysis and Critical Control Point (HACCP) principles. If you already have an existing food safety management system, you may use the concepts in this Manual to upgrade the system you have in place.
• USDA Meat and Poultry Product Recalls
  A recall is a voluntary action taken by a manufacturer or distributor to protect the public from products that may cause health problems. Look here first for the current news.
• World Health Organization
  The World Health Organization (WHO) Food Safety site provides scientific advice for Member States, other organizations and the public related to the safety of food. Recognizing the global nature of many food safety problems, linking national food safety systems and building the capacity of such systems is also an important task for WHO.