FDA reports its 2025 foodborne response workflow
FDA reports 69 incidents evaluated, 26 responses initiated and 11 public advisories during 2025. These are workflow counts, not illness totals or a success rate. Evaluations, responses and advisories answer different questions. Source check: Reviewed October 14; use the stated evidence cutoff, not publication time, as the data clock. Checked at 2026-10-14T14:30:43Z.
- Location
- United States · program context
- No map point
- First seen
- October 14, 2026
- Last verified
- October 14, 2026
- Event date
- FDA CORE+EP 2025 annual report released October 2026
- TiPH detected
- October 14, 2026
- TiPH published
- October 14, 2026
- Desk publication, not the event date
What changed since the prior scan
Newly published in the October 14 catch-up release; underlying event and evidence dates are stated separately.
History
- First seen (source)
First reported by the primary source. External event date, not a TiPH publication date.
- Added to the desk
Added in the approved October 14 catch-up release.
Primary sources
Who works on this?
Events like this are answered by teams across public health. These are real profession types that respond to this kind of event — not people assigned to it.
Foodborne-disease epidemiologist
Investigates contaminated-food and waterborne illness clusters.
Environmental health specialist
Inspects and mitigates environmental hazards to health.
Food safety inspector
Checks food production and supply chains for contamination risk.
Public health microbiologist
Identifies pathogens and characterizes outbreaks in the lab.
Outbreak investigator
Coordinates case-finding, interviews, and source tracing.
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Corrections & updates
This record is reverified against its primary sources on a twice-daily scan. When the evidence changes, the record changes and the change is logged in the review record — including signals we remove. This is situational awareness, not clinical or travel advice.
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