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CSPI Files FOIA Request on Salmonella Outbreak Sources

The Center for Science in the Public Interest (CSPI) has filed a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request seeking to identify the poultry-production plants associated with an outbreak of Salmonella. CSPI requested that the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) deliver information on the “name, address, establishment number, and date of positive sample(s)” for poultry products that “tested positive for the outbreak strain of Salmonella Infantis” in raw chicken and “Salmonella Reading” in raw turkey.

“In addition to granting the current FOIA request, which may be done by delivering the data to CSPI directly or posting it on the USDA website, CSPI also requests that the USDA develop a practice for reporting this information publicly in all similar multi-source outbreaks moving forward,” the request states.

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