date:Jul 23, 2012
be a five-year effort to sequence the genetic code of approximately 100,000 important foodborne pathogens and make this information available in a free, public database.
This important project will harness the cutting-edge technology of genome sequencing to advance our understanding of and response to foodborne outbreaks, said FDA Commissioner Margaret A. Hamburg, M.D. FDA is pleased to contribute scientific and technical expertise necessary to create and maintain this foodborne pathogen databas