For over 50 years, the Crumbine Award, named for one of the United States most renowned public health sanitarians, has been presented to a local public health unit by a jury of leading environmental health officials and public health sanitarians and is the most prestigious recognition that a public health unit can receive. Crumbine winners serve as models for other public health and safety programs across the nation.

Multnomah County received the Crumbine Award at the Annual Education Conference of the National Environmental Health Association, June 25-28 in San Antonio. Award presentations were also made at the annual meetings of the National Association of County and City Health Officials, July 26-28 also in San Antonio, and the International Association for Food Protection, Aug. 13-16 in Calgary.

The Crumbine Award is supported by the Conference for Food Protection, in cooperation with the American Academy of Sanitarians, American Public Health Association, Association of Food & Drug Officials, Foodservice & Packaging Institute Inc., International Association for Food Protection, International Food Safety Council, NACCHO, NEHA, National Sanitation Foundation International and Underwriters Laboratories Inc.

For more information about the Crumbine Award, please contact Lynn Dyer, director of market development and programs at the Foodservice & Packaging Institute (FPI) at (703) 538-2800. A copy of Multnomah County’s award-winning application will appear at their Web site (see below).

The FPI, headquartered in Falls Church, Va., is the material-neutral trade association for converters, raw material and machinery suppliers of foodservice packaging products, and the foodservice operators using these products.