Association of Food and Drug Officials - June 2023

The Association of Food and Drug Officials holds an annual forum to address food safety in Norfolk, VA. Over 400 state, local, federal, and tribal government regulators and industry participated, as well as individuals from academia and consumer advocate partners. The organizers invited Bill Marler tospeak about the E. coli Jack in the Box outbreak in the 1990s. The participants were interested in learning about any progress made since then, and what more needs to be done to help prevent an outbreak of this magnitude from ever happening again.