The U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Food Safety and Inspection Service (USDA’s FSIS) has reviewed its investigation of a 2018–2019 foodborne illness outbreak involving chicken contaminated by a multi-drug resistant Salmonella Infantis strain, which was the first time that FSIS identified a strain as “persistent.”

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) held a webinar on April 13 on its Foodborne Outbreak Response Improvement Plan, which covered scientific context for the plan and its four core priorities.