FDA Releases 2023 CORE Annual Report
Thursday, May 15, 2025
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  • Yesterday FDA’s Coordinated Outbreak Response & Evaluation (CORE) Network announced the release its 2023 annual report summarizing food-borne outbreak and adverse events in FDA-regulated foods.
  • In 2023, the CORE Signals and Surveillance Team, which evaluates emerging outbreaks and disease surveillance trends in collaboration with CDC, FDA field offices, and state agencies, evaluated 69 incidents, of which 25 were passed for follow up to an FDA Response Team, and 10 resulted in public health advisories. Of the responses with identified products linked to illness, fruit produce made up the greatest share at 31% (4 cases), followed by other produce at 23% (3 cases).
  • The report notes FDA’s continued partnership with Mexican food safety regulators including exchange of outbreak information through the Binational Outbreak Notification Protocol which was initiated for four CORE responses. FDA also conducted two accompanied, but unannounced inspections of Mexican food facilities.
  • Notable outbreaks identified in the report were the lead-contaminated cinnamon apple sauce pouches traced to a cinnamon supplier in Ecuador, adverse reactions (including death) linked to Morel mushrooms served at a Montana restaurant, and an outbreak of Listeria monocytogenes linked to soft serve ice cream in Brooklyn.
  • The Report predates FDA’s October 2024 reorganization into the Human Foods Program. Since the reorganization, CORE has reorganized into the Office of Coordinated Outbreak Response, Evaluation, & Emergency Preparedness (CORE+EP).
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