- On November 15, FDA announced a finalized rule to more effectively trace contaminated food through the food supply sourced both domestically and internationally. Foodborne illness affects millions of Americans each
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IFSAC Releases Report on Foodborne Illnesses
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- On November 4, 2022, FDA announced that the Interagency Food Safety Analytics Collaboration (IFSAC) had released its annual report on “Foodborne illness source attribution estimates for 2020 for Salmonella, Escherichia
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FDA Promotes New Series of Prevention Strategies to Enhance Food Safety
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- Dr. Mark Moorman, Director of the Food and Drug Administration’s (FDA) Office of Food Safety, and Stephen Hughes (Prevention Coordinator) published a post on the FDA Voices blog on October
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FDA and CDC Sign Retail Food Safety MOU
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- On September 21, the FDA and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) entered into a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) to outline an agreement through which both agencies intend
FDA Webinar on Foodborne Outbreak Response
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- On March 23, 2022, FDA announced that it would hold a webinar on the Agency’s Foodborne Outbreak Improvement Plan (“Improvement Plan”). As previously reported, the Improvement Plan was released
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FDA Announces Second Webinar in Series on Food Safety Culture
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- FDA launched the New Era of Smarter Food Safety in 2019 to combine the implementation of the FDA Food Safety Modernization Act (FSMA) with the use of new
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Modernizing Foodborne Illness Outbreak Responses
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- As a part of its work to implement the Food Safety Modernization Act and New Era of Smarter Food Safety initiative, FDA has released its Foodborne Outbreak Response Improvement
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FSIS Posts After-Action Review for Pork Patty-Linked Lm Outbreak
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- The United States Department of Agriculture’s (USDA) Food Safety and Inspection Service (FSIS) routinely monitors clusters of illnesses to determine if FSIS-regulated products may be the source of food-borne illnesses.
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USDA Asked to Modernize Poultry Safety Standards
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- On September 2, a coalition of consumer groups, foodborne illness survivors, poultry industry, academic scientists, and other food safety leaders sent a letter to USDA Secretary Tom Vilsack requesting a
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FDA Releases Cyclospora Action Plan
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- FDA released its Cyclospora Prevention, Response, and Research Action Plan on July 1 as part of FDA’s New Era of Smarter Food Safety initiative. The Action Plan is modeled after