New FDA programs designed to enhance transparency of outbreak investigations

FPSA - FDA Reveals Unsolved E. Coli Outbreak in New Foodborne Illness Outbreak Transparency Tools

FDA has introduced two resources designed to improve public access to information about concluded foodborne illness outbreak investigations: Executive Incident Summary (EIS) Abstracts and Foodborne Outbreak Overview of Data (FOOD) Reports for historic pathogen-commodity pairs. Read MoreThe post FDA Reveals Unsolved E. Coli Outbreak in New Foodborne Illness Outbreak Transparency Tools appeared first on FPSA.

New FDA programs designed to enhance transparency of outbreak investigations

The Food and Drug Administration has launched a new transparency policy for the reporting of foodborne illness outbreak investigations. As part of the initiative the public, industry stakeholders and other entities will have access to two new resources once an outbreak investigation has ended: Executive Incident Summary (EIS) Abstracts for Closed Foodborne Illness Investigations; and   Foodborne Outbreak Overview of Data (FOOD) Reports “The EIS…