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What the Latest IFSAC Report Tells Us About Foodborne Illness and Why It Matters
On March 27th, 2026, The Interagency Food Safety Analytics Collaboration (IFSAC), released its latest annual source attribution report. These reports are designed to estimate which broad food categories are most commonly associated with foodborne illness caused by pathogens, including Salmonella, E. coli O157, and Listeria monocytogenes. The data in this 2023-year report uses 49,848…
How the Same Data Can Lead to Different Conclusions
Have you ever heard the saying “data does not lie, people do”? The saying captures a real challenge in data analysis: numbers do not interpret themselves. People decide what to measure, how to clean the data, which methods to use, and how to present the results. Those choices can shape the conclusions just as much as the data themselves. Data are simply observations, the…
New Study Introduces Framework for REP Strains of Foodborne Pathogens
A new peer-reviewed article published in the Journal of Food Protection introduces a framework for describing Reoccurring, Emerging, and Persisting (REP) strains of foodborne pathogens. The paper, written by scientists from CDC, FDA, USDA-FSIS, Association of Public Health Laboratories, ASRT, Inc., and Gret Hill Solutions, outlines a framework for understanding strains that cause…