Stop Foodborne Illness Inc

The Alliance to Stop Foodborne IllnessThe Alliance to Stop Foodborne Illness focuses on promoting positive, mature food safety cultures across industry.The Alliance to Stop Foodborne Illness is a program of Stop Foodborne Illness (STOP), that brings together STOP constituents, leading food companies, and other like- minded organizations deeply committed to the goal of preventing foodborne disease. Developed in 2018, the Alliance was born out of a shared understanding of the crucial role food safety culture plays in ensuring that food is safe, and consumers are protected.

Research -One health project with AUBURN UNIVERSITY

The Dave Theno Food Safety Fellowship was created after the food safety revolutionary's untimely death in 2017. Mr. Theno's response to the unprecedented 1993 deadly E. coli O157:H7 outbreak transformed food practices, standards, management, and leadership in the beef industry.The Fellowship's focus is to fuel the passion for food safety in young, accomplished scientists and to develop and encourage careers in food safety. Stop Foodborne Illness, along with Michigan State University, has the honor of supporting the Dave Theno Food Safety Fellowship.

Recall Modernization Research ProjectThe goal of the project is to create templates for communicating essential information to consumers about recalls, market withdrawals, and public health alerts that work in the current communications environment.Rutgers University and STOP will work together to create templates written in plain language that are harmonized across the FDA and USDA, meeting any specific agency requirements, which can be tailored to incidents involving pathogens, allergens, chemical contamination, or foreign objects. AFDO contract directly with Stop Foodborne Illness (STOP), which would then subcontract directly with Drs. William Hallman and Katherine Oganyanova, who would then subcontract with a research assistant to help code social media data. STOP has agreed to a 20% indirect cost structure (vs. the Rutgers rate of 57%) and has agreed to help us identify key informants through the Alliance and to help coordinate interviews/surveys with them.Carrying out this research will positively position STOP, its Recall Modernization Committee, and the researchers involved to seek funding from FDA, USDA, and industry partners to carry out planned quantitative testing of the templates using prior and prospective recalls during Phase 3.