Lexology September 26, 2025
On Wednesday, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) announced two new resources that will be made available after an outbreak investigation has concluded – (1) Executive Incident Summary (EIS) abstracts for closed foodborne illness investigations and (2) Foodborne Outbreak Overview of Data (FOOD) Reports.1 The EIS abstracts provide a high-level approximately one-page overview of data collected during a foodborne illness investigation. FDA states that EIS abstracts are redacted to comply with disclosure laws, including the Trade Secrets Act and FDA regulations. The FOOD Reports provide more detailed information about “pathogen-commodity pairs” that have been linked to repeated outbreaks of foodborne illness. FDA will continually release EIS Abstracts and FOOD Reports, and states that these resources will both improve information...
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