STOP Foodborne Illness will be sending recommendations to the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to update the country's food recall system.

In 2020, less people fell ill in Hong Kong from foodborne illness, but more outbreaks were reported.

A mysterious outbreak in October 2007, which affected about 450 people of all ages, was traced to table salt in which sodium chloride somehow had been replaced by sodium bromide, suggesting that food should be considered as a potential vehicle until it can be explicitly ruled out.

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.

Foodborne illness outbreaks were scarce in 2020 during the COVID-19 pandemic, and that trend is continuing for the first quarter of 2021.

After a foodborne outbreak is identified, specific food vehicles may become the focus of an investigation based on the pathogen implicated and past outbreaks linked to the pathogen. 

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