U S Department Of Health And Human Services
Therefore, lowering SE illness from shell eggs is the most appropriate FDA strategy for lowering sickness from SE. Preventing Salmonella infections depends on actions taken by regulatory companies, the food business and consumers to reduce contamination of meals, in addition to actions taken for detecting and responding to outbreaks. As a part of the shared vision to reduce foodborne sickness, HHS's Food and Drug Administration has developed a Priority Goal to scale back Salmonella contamination in shell eggs, and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is working with FDA to collect more information to higher estimate sources of illness. Additionally, USDA, FDA and CDC are involved in many interagency efforts, including the Interagency Food Safety Analytics Collaboration . This interagency collaboration is working to enhance methods used to estimate the proportion of foodborne sicknesses related to specific sources. HHS is identifying, testing, evaluating and expanding p...