Colorado School of Public Health researchers found that investments in state public health programs significantly affect states’ levels of foodborne illness outbreak reporting.
During the Thursday morning Town Hall at the 2022 Food Safety Summit, top food safety regulators from FDA, USDA, CDC, and AFDO discussed initiatives and advances in food traceability, food safety policy, recalls, pathogen monitoring, food safety culture, and a number of other timely areas.
The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) said that norovirus outbreaks declined between April–July 2020, which may be related to COVID-19 control measures.
The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has tools to identify possible multistate outbreaks, investigate their cause, and communicate about them to the public. But it needs to balance the need to communicate quickly against the need to provide accurate and specific information.