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2019 Rapid Response Team (RRT) Annual Meeting Posters

This multi-disciplinary meeting included various response partners from food/feed regulatory/environmental health, epidemiology, laboratory, academia, Federal Bureau of Investigations (FBI), FDA, Indian Health Service (IHS), CDC, and USDA/FSIS. A total of 200 people attended the 2019 RRT F2F meeting, with 51% of attendees coming from state and local agencies and 49% of attendees from federal agencies.

2019 rrt mtg

About the 2019 Meeting

The 2019 Annual Rapid Response Teams (RRT) Face to Face (F2F) meeting was held December 10-12, 2019 in Louisville, Kentucky. This was the 11th annual RRT F2F meeting; it included 24 RRT states (18 funded, 6 voluntary) and all 12 FDA Human and Animal Food Divisions, as well as the Division of Southwest Imports. It was the first meeting for 2 new RRTs: Connecticut and Kansas.

The theme for the meeting was ‘Off to the Races: RRTs in the Lead.’ In addition to panel presentations and lecture-based sessions, the meeting also featured a poster session (25 posters), two ‘Speed Dating’ sessions (10 tables at each of the one-hour sessions), and two tours of food facilities (a pork processing plant and a food bank). This year brought several firsts to the RRT F2F: a live episode of the Food Safety Talk podcast was recorded; and a half-day training was held after the general meeting concluded (Preparing Public Health Employees for Public Communication).

Top-rated presentations during meeting included panels on:

    1. Salmonella/Pig Ears Multi-State Outbreak
    2. Cannabis/CBD in Foods Panel
    3. Hepatitis A Outbreak in Kentucky – Public Health & Food Program Response
    4. Large Scale Planned Events
    5. Cyclospora – a review of the investigations from the 2019 season
    6. Consumer Advisories, Press Releases and other Public Communications during Investigations: RRT Case Studies
    7. Best Practices for After Action Reviews

To learn more about the RRT Program, visit the FDA RRT webpage.

California RRT (CalFERT) Poster

Leafy Greens-Related Incidents in California: 1996-2016 (View poster)

CDC National Center for Environmental Health Poster

cdc national center rrt poster

Sanitizing Solution in Retail Delis (View poster)

FDA HAF2E RRTs Poster

FDA Human and Animal Foods East 2 (HAF2E) Regional Sampling Project (View poster)

Georgia RRT Poster

GaRRT and Food Defense Response for Super Bowl LIII (View poster)

Iowa RRT Poster

2019 Register’s Annual Great Bicycle Ride Across Iowa Response (View poster)

Indiana RRT Poster

2 for 1: Clostridium perfringens Response (View poster)

Kentucky RRT Poster

Multistate Outbreak of Escherichia coli O103 Linked to Ground Beef, Kentucky Perspective (View poster)

 

Michigan RRT Poster

Michigan Department of Agriculture and Rural Development Sampling Team Exercises March – July 2019 (View poster)

Minnesota RRT Poster

Minnesota Rapid Response Team: FY 2019 Highlights (View poster)

Missouri RRT (MRRT) Poster

Information on Luster Dust Helps Missouri Tackle a Lead Case Regarding Food (View poster)

New York RRT Poster

New York State Rapid Response Team: On the Job Experience to Full Preventive Controls Investigation (View poster)

Pennsylvania RRT Poster

Pennsylvania Rapid Response Team: Salmonella Outbreak Related to Pig Ears (View poster)

Rhode Island RRT Poster

One Form, Two Forms, Food Forms, New Forms: Continuously Improving the RI RRT’s Outbreak Responses (View poster)

South Carolina RRT Poster

South Carolina Rapid Response Team: The First Year (View poster)

Utah RRT Poster

Utah Rapid Response Team: Human and Animal Food (View poster)

Virginia RRT Poster

Virginia’s RRT Egg-cellent Response to a Restaurant Associated Foodborne Outbreak (View poster)

Washington RRT Poster

Washington RRT Annual Exercise: Intentional Contamination of Dry Cereal Product with Ricin (View poster)

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