The U.S. Department of Agriculture’s (USDA) Food Safety and Inspection Service (FSIS) today announced key achievements for fiscal year (FY) 2020 and highlighted progress on its goal of modernizing the agency and fulfilling its mission to prevent foodborne illness and protect public health.

FSIS has posted on its website an outbreak investigations overview and summaries of outbreaks investigated during fiscal years 2017, 2018, and 2019.

USDA's FSIS and FDA released a formal agreement to address the regulatory oversight of human food products derived from the cells of livestock and poultry, which describes the oversight roles and responsibilities for both agencies and how they will collaborate to regulate the development and entry of these products into commerce.

While robots are taking over dangerous jobs in newer automated meat and poultry plants, the rest still use mostly manual labor.