About CIFOR
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The Council to Improve Foodborne Outbreak Response (CIFOR) is a multidisciplinary collaboration of national associations and federal agencies working together since 2006 to improve methods to detect, investigate, control and prevent foodborne disease outbreaks. Council member representatives include expertise in epidemiology, environmental health, public health laboratory activities and food regulation at the local, state and federal levels.
According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), foodborne illness affects one in six Americans annually. Of the estimated 48 million who get sick from a foodborne illness each year, 128,000 are hospitalized and 3,000 die.
Many organizations work to reduce foodborne illness. Outbreak identification and investigation is a key area where multidisciplinary public health professionals must collaborate. CIFOR was created to develop and share guidelines, processes, and products that will facilitate effective foodborne outbreak response.
CIFOR is co-chaired by the Council of State and Territorial Epidemiologists (CSTE) and the National Association of County and City Health Officials (NACCHO).
Vision
A future free of foodborne illness.
Mission
To improve and promote methods and processes to detect, investigate, control, and prevent foodborne disease outbreaks in the United States by leveraging effective collaboration at the local, state, tribal, territorial, and federal levels.
By-Laws
CIFOR is composed of three entities: the Council, a Governance Committee, and Workgroups.
Comprised of food safety public health partners, the entities aim to focus on development of CIFOR projects and ensure participation of the larger foodborne outbreak response community.
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