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Food Safety Information Infrastructure

For detailed information on this project, please visit the separate project website: FSII Project - Phase 1: Exploring Opportunities to Improve the Nation's Food Safety Information Infrastructure.

For this project, "food safety information infrastructure" means all of the many public and private institutions and programs through which data and information are collected and shared to improve food safety, including the activities of federal and state regulatory and research agencies, the CDC, state health departments and laboratories, the food industry, academic institutions and researchers, and public health and consumer organizations. 

The goals of this project are to, first, describe the institutions and data sources that compose the information infrastructure, second, to identify and discuss the key issues that affect how food safety data are collected and shared, and, third, to identify and discuss opportunities to improve current practices. The approach of the project is centered around dialogue and consultation with the broad food safety community.

Project Collaborators and Contacts

This project is being managed by the George Washington University School of Public Health and Health Services (GWU/SPHHS) The principal investigators are Michael Taylor of GWU and Michael Batz of the Emerging Pathogens Institute at the University of Florida (UF/EPI). Others on the project team include Stephanie David (GWU), Jan Powell (formerly University of Maryland School of Medicine in Baltimore (UMB)), J. Glenn Morris Jr. (formerly UMB, currently UF/EPI), Judith Cooksey (UMB), Marin Schweizer (UMB), David Ross (Public Health Informatics Institute), and Mike Doyle (University of Georgia). For more information about the project, email mbatz@ufl.edu or visit the project website.

Funding and Timeline

The project is supported by a grant from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation.