ADVANCING FOOD SAFETY
U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) Food Safety Data Sharing Platform
Through the Creme Global designed platform the FDA is now connecting with organizations such as the U.S. EPA (Environmental Protection Agency), NOAA (the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration in the U.S.), and many State Departments to share data, insights and drive food safety forward.
FDA Food Safety platform we’ve developed is possibly the largest-ever, inter-agency food safety data sharing hub in the history of the US government, recently presented at the White House level.
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The Challenge
The FDAs New Era of Smarter Food Safety is their blueprint to bend the curve of foodborne illness through the use of new technologies and approaches. One key area identified is better sharing of data to safeguard the science, quality of the data and in turn foster the communication, and understanding between all parties.
The project Initially looked at Seafood, as 95% of seafood in the United States is imported. The FDA wanted to bring together public and private data from all the different partners along the supply chain to track seafood imports and testing.
The goal was to accelerate collective learning and enable comprehensive understanding, and ultimately prediction, of food safety vulnerabilities. Then in turn, everyone in the supply chain can make better decisions and be strategic and targeted with their resources.
Better food safety begins and ends with better data…and better data governance.
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The Solution
The Creme Global platform was selected as an independent data trust to allow data sharing and ensure credibility, reputation, knowledge and insight for all parties.
As shown in this diagram, the U.S. FDA is the main organization contributing data, but we are also facilitating the upload of data from many other organizations and users, for example, the U.S. EPA (Environmental Protection Agency), NOAA (the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration in the U.S.), and many of the State Departments.
These organizations can all contribute data into the data trust, and it all gets combined and visualized. We are also pulling in some public data from agencies such as the U.S. CDC (Center for Disease Control and Prevention) and other public sources to help the FDA understand what’s going on with their food imports.
It is profoundly exciting, the ability to visualize the data, the levels, and the regions. We are looking to take this tool and expand it to other categories.
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Project Impact
There’s been a huge growth in the data available for analysis for the FDA through this project, and this has brought many benefits.
It has validated some of their previous thinking where they suspected risks from certain regions. They now have the data now to back up that knowledge. And they’re gaining new insights and they’re able to target their resources better in the right areas at the right time. For example, they can be more strategic and targeted with their inspections.
Growth in available data from 2,241 to 28,962 samples.
The ability to ask better questions.
New insights on the presence and concentration of contaminants in seafood products from different regions.
Better resource management.
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