Association of Food and Drug Officials

Association of Food and Drug Officials

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Retail Data Analytics

The Retail Food Safety Data Analytics page provides access to research, reports, and white papers that help regulatory agencies better understand retail food safety trends, evaluate risk-based inspection practices, and identify opportunities to reduce foodborne illness risk.

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Acknowledgments

AFDO gratefully acknowledges the state and local regulatory agencies whose partnership and data sharing made the Retail Data Analytics Project possible. Together, these agencies contributed more than 800,000 routine retail food inspections conducted between 2017 and 2022, providing an unprecedented multi-jurisdictional dataset for advancing risk-based inspection practices and regulatory program evaluation.

Participating agencies:

  1. Alaska Department of Environmental Conservation
  2. Arkansas Department of Health
  3. Harris County Public Health (Texas)
  4. Iowa Department of Inspections, Appeals, and Licensing
  5. Kansas Department of Agriculture
  6. Pennsylvania Department of Agriculture
  7. Rhode Island Department of Health
  8. South Carolina Department of Agriculture
  9. Tennessee Department of Health

AFDO sincerely thanks these agencies for their ongoing collaboration and commitment to strengthening retail food safety through data-driven approaches.

This project was supported by the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) as part of a financial assistance award U18FD007051, with 100 percent funded by FDA/HHS. The contents are those of the author(s) and do not necessarily represent the official views of, nor an endorsement by, FDA/HHS, or the U.S. Government.

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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.