FDA, USDA and CDC Map Out 5-Year Foodborne Illness Plan
Last week, a new Strategic Plan for 2017-2021 was unveiled by The Interagency Food Safety Analytics Collaboration (IFSAC)--a partnership that consists of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA), and the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Food Safety and Inspection Service (FSIS).
The plan calls for increased focus on improving estimates of where foodborne illnesses originate, along with developing methods to determine how the sources of such illnesses change over time. Specifically, the Strategic Plan’s goals are: