NEWS

The FSRC announces a new report, "Stronger Partnerships for Safer Food: An Agenda for Strengthening State and Local Roles in the Nation’s Food Safety System," to be released on APRIL 17, 2009 at an event on the campus of The George Washington University in Washington, DC. The report is the culmination of a multi-year project led by GW Research Professor Michael Taylor, with collaborators at AFDO, ASTHO, NACCHO, and the University of Florida, and funded by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation. More information about the project can be found here.

The FSRC has been funded by USDA CSREES to convene a two-day workshop, "Public and Private Roles in Food Import Safety: Implementing a Risk-Based System." Planning for the meeting is being led by Glenn Morris and Michael Batz at the University of Florida, with collaboration from all FSRC member institutions. The meeting is currently being planned for the fall of 2009 in Washington, DC.

RECENT HIGHLIGHTS

The FSRC project "Developing and Applying a Descriptive Framework For Analyzing Food Safety Resources", is currently underway. Led by GWU Research Professor Michael Taylor, it involves collaborators at AFDO, ASTHO, NACCHO, and the University of Florida.

In May of 2008, the FSRC released the report, "Harnessing Knowledge to Ensure Food Safety: Opportunities to Improve the Nation's Food Safety Information Infrastructure."

NOTABLE EVENTS

Harnessing Knowledge to Ensure Food Safety: Report Release and Panel Discussion, Washington, DC, May 22, 2008.

E. coli O157:H7 in Lettuce and Leafy Greens: Strategies for Developing an Intervention Assessment Model, Monterey, CA, November 13-15, 2006.

International Conference: Priority Setting of Foodborne and Zoonotic Pathogens, Berlin, Germany, 19-21 July 2006.

NOTABLE PUBLICATIONS

FSRC Report 08-01:
Harnessing Knowledge to Ensure Food Safety: Opportunities to Improve the Nation's Food Safety Information Infrastructure, May 2008.

MED-VET-NET Report 07-001
Priority Setting for Foodborne and Zoonotic Pathogens , January 2008.

Journal of Food Protection:
Using Expert Elicitation To Link Foodborne Illnesses in the United States to Foods, May 2007.

Agribusiness: An International Journal:
Special issue: Economic measures of food safety interventions, Spring 2007. Co-edited by Helen Jensen and Julie Caswell, based on two workshops from this FSRC project.

RFF Discussion Paper 06-17:
Eliciting Information on Uncertainty from Heterogeneous Expert Panels: Improving Risk-Based Decisionmaking in the U.S., April 2006.

FSRC Discussion Paper 3:
Prioritizing Opportunities to Reduce the Burden of Foodborne Risk: A Conceptual Framework, December 2005.

Emerging Infectious Diseases:
Attributing Illness to Food, July 2005.

MEMBER INSTITUTIONS

University of California, Davis: Western Institute for Food Safety and Security
University of Florida: Emerging Pathogens Institute
The George Washington University: School of Public Health and Health Services
University of Georgia: Center for Food Safety
Iowa State University: Institute for Food Safety and Security
University of Massachusetts: Food Marketing Policy Center
Michigan State University: Food Safety Policy Center
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