The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has announced its Foodborne Outbreak Response Improvement Plan to optimize foodborne illness investigations.
One of the Food Safety Summit’s closing sessions, “Foodborne Illness Outbreak Mock Criminal Trial – A View from the Jury Box" took place on Thursday, October 23rd.
The variability in capabilities at the state and local levels often results in botched investigations and turf battles, and sometimes there isn't any prevention of illness or reduction in the number of people who become ill or die.