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UPCOMING

Enhancing State and Local Roles in the Nation's Food Safety System: Symposium and Project Kick-off

The FSRC will convene a public symposium to kick-off a new project funded by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation entitled "Enhancing the Roles of State and Local Government in an Integrated, Prevention-Oriented Food Safety System." The symposium is co-hosted by George Washington University, AFDO, ASTHO and NACCHO and will include panel discussions to present the perspectives of state and local food safety and public health officials, federal agencies, food industry, and consumers. For more information about the symposium, or to RSVP, contact foodsafety@gwumc.edu.

The project will include three additional workshops:

• Workshop on Surveillance and Outbreak Response
  July 1, 2008 in Arlington, Virginia.
• Workshop on Inspection and Regulatory Activities
  July 14-15, 2008 in Las Vegas, Nevada.
• Workshop on Integration of the Food Safety System
  October 2008 in Washington, D.C.

PAST

Food Safety Information Infrastructure Project

The FSII project held a number of meetings:

This meeting saw the release of the final report of the FSII project, entitled "Harnessing Knowledge to Ensure Food Safety: Opportunities to Improve the Nation's Food Safety Information Infrastructure" and written by Michael Taylor (GWU) and Michael Batz (UF). The meeting was based around a panel discussion led by Pamela Russo, senior program officer at the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, and including David Acheson (FDA), Richard Raymond (USDA), Art Liang (CDC), Caroline Smith DeWaal (CSPI), and Bob Brackett (GMA).

• FSII Public Briefing
  June 14, 2006, Washington, DC
• Workshop 1: Public Sector
  November 2-3, 2006, Atlanta, GA
• Workshop 2: Industry Issues
  December 13, 2006, Washington, DC
• Workshop 3: Research Community's Role
  February 1, 2007, Baltimore, MD
• Workshop 4: Mechanisms for Data Sharing
  March 2, 2007, Washington, DC

Prioritizing Opportunities to Reduce Foodborne Risk

National Conference
     September 14, 2005
     Washington, DC

Presentation of proposed priority-setting framework to national stakeholders and experts. Convened at Resources for the Future, 1616 P Street NW, Washington, DC 20036.

Workshop Series: Prioritizing Opportunities
to Reduce Foodborne Risk
The FSRC held a series of three workshops to develop a conceptual framework for prioritizing opportunities to reduce risk based on an understanding of the integrated and systems-wide approach necessary to reduce foodborne illness.

• Workshop 1: Risk modeling approaches and case studies
  Convened by Iowa State University and the University of California-Davis
       June 15 & 16, 2004
       Iowa State University
• Workshop 2: Economic measures of interventions
       December 2 & 3, 2004
       University of Massachusetts Amherst
• Workshop 3: Interventions and Food Attribution
       April 26 & 27, 2005
       University of Georgia.

Food Attribution Workshop
     October 31, 2003
     Atlanta, GA
Based, in part, upon data gaps highlighted by the risk ranking model, the FSRC convened a small group of experts to participate in a day long workshop.  This workshop developed ideas and recommendations for how food attribution data might be collected to produce the most useful results in an efficient manner, and further defined and prioritized other data collection needs to support food safety risk ranking as tool for priority setting.  The workshop discussion has been published in an article in the journal Emerging Infectious Diseases, and previously in a discussion paper.

Foodborne Illness Risk Ranking Model

Ranking the Public Health Impact of Foodborne Hazards
A Conference on the FSRC Risk Ranking Model
    September 12, 2003
     Washington, DC
FSRC hosted a one-day conference on the development of its risk ranking model.  Video is available, as are many background documents made available at the conference.

Work-in-Progress Workshops
    July 8^th through July 16^th, 2003
     Washington, DC
The Risk Ranking Model project team held six work-in-progress workshops where invited stakeholders were updated on model status and challenges and given the opportunity to provide feedback.