Association of Food and Drug Officials

Association of Food and Drug Officials

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Shopper Card Data for Outbreak Investigations

Shopper history helps investigators solve outbreaks by tracking food purchases linked to illness cases. This resource provides best practices for health officials on requesting and using purchase data while promoting collaboration between investigators, industry, and consumers. Learn more about the SHOP partnership, public health benefits, and best practices below.

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What is SHOP?

The Shopper History Outbreak Partnership (SHOP) is a group of public health and food safety officials dedicated to working closely with industry partners to use consumer food purchase data as a tool to solve foodborne outbreaks, remove contaminated food from the marketplace, and prevent additional illnesses.

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The Association of Food and Drug Officials (AFDO) is a regulatory organization that connects food and medical-products safety stakeholders and impacts the regulatory environment by shaping sound, science-based rules, law, regulations, and sharing best practices that protect public health.