The UK Food Standards Agency (FSA) has partnered with the Biotechnology and Biological Research Council (BBSRC) and the Quadram Institute to create the UK Food Safety Network, a collaborative space for food safety research, training, and innovation.
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has announced its Foodborne Outbreak Response Improvement Plan to optimize foodborne illness investigations.
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) recently released a report on foodborne illness in retail food store deli departments, using data collected between 2015–2016.
Researchers from San Diego State University, Virginia Tech, Loyola Marymount University, and Radford University are using text mining to try to pinpoint unique words and phrases in posts online, which identify consumers' experiences with hazardous food products.
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.
In an ongoing effort to understand sources of foodborne illness in the U.S., the Interagency Food Safety Analytics Collaboration (IFSAC) collects and analyzes outbreak data to produce an annual report with estimates of foods responsible for foodborne illnesses caused by pathogens.