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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."
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