FDA issues improvement plan focused on updating foodborne illness outbreak responses
The FDA's new Foodborne Outbreak Response Improvement Plan is designed to help the FDA and its partners enhance the speed, effectiveness, coordination and communication of foodborne outbreak investigations. The FDA says it is confident that the actions outlined in this plan will translate into activities focused on enhancing the prevention of outbreaks.
As part of our work implementing the FDA Food Safety Modernization Act (FSMA) and our New Era of Smarter Food Safety initiative, the organization has collaborated with experts in both the public and private sectors for input on additional ways to strengthen the agency's outbreak response. Input from the U.S. Department of Agriculture's Food Safety Inspection Service (FSIS) and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), state health officials, industry and consumer foodborne outbreak experts, along with the input of FDA leadership and staff, was key to the development of the new improvement plan.