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          Release of 2017 Annual Report on the Sources of Foodborne Illness by the Interagency Food Safety Analytics CollaborationCFSAN Constituent Updates Release of 2017 Annual Report on the Sources of Foodborne Illness by the Interagency Food Safety Analytics Collaboration
  
  	
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October 4, 2019

In an ongoing effort to understand sources of foodborne illness in the United States, the Interagency Food Safety Analytics Collaboration (IFSAC) collects and analyzes outbreak data to produce an annual report with estimates of foods responsible for foodborne illnesses caused by pathogens. The report estimates the degree to which four pathogens - *Salmonella, E. coli O157, Listeria monocytogenes*, and *Campylobacter* – and specific foods and food categories are responsible for foodborne illnesses. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) estimates that, together, these four pathogens cause 1.9 million foodborne illnesses in the U.S. each year. The newest report, entitled “Foodborne illness source attribution estimates for 2017 for *Salmonella*, *Escherichia coli O157*, *Listeria monocytogenes*, and *Campylobacter* using multi-year outbreak surveillance data, United States” can be found on the IFSAC website.

The updated estimates, combined with other data, may help shape agency priorities and inform the creation of targeted interventions that can help to reduce foodborne illnesses caused by these pathogens. As more data become available and methods evolve, attribution estimates may improve. These estimates are intended to inform and engage stakeholders and to improve federal agencies’ abilities to assess whether prevention measures are working.

Three federal agencies—the CDC, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA), and the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Food Safety and Inspection Service (USDA-FSIS)— created IFSAC in 2011 to improve coordination of federal food safety analytic efforts and address cross-cutting priorities for food safety data collection, analysis, and use. For more information on IFSAC projects, visit https://www.cdc.gov/foodsafety/ifsac/projects/index.html or email IFSAC@fda.hhs.gov.

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