How FDA Food Supply Data Supports COVID-19 Vaccine Distribution

In the latest FDA Voices post, Dr. Stephen Hahn and Frank Yiannas, M.P.H. discuss how the new data analysis tool, 21 FORWARD, is helping food and agriculture workers receive vaccines.

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开始作为通知国家大流行反应的方式的新数据分析工具现在用于帮助各国对食品和农业的基本工人进行疫苗分配。FDA已与经营扭曲速度,CDC和美国农业部(USDA)合作,为此努力。

21向前由以下FDA团体在联合努力中制定,以确定对食品供应的大流行性风险。

  • Office of Food Policy and Response
  • Center for Food Safety and Applied Nutrition
  • Office of Regulatory Affairs
  • Center for Veterinary Medicine

In the post, Hahn and Yiannas explain, “Early on in the pandemic, workers in the food and agriculture sector were identified by the U.S. Department of Homeland Security’s Cybersecurity & Infrastructure Security Agency as being among essential critical infrastructure workers, meaning that their ability to do their job safely is critical to our society’s ability to function. The FDA, in partnership with CDC and the Occupational Safety and Health Administration, has been working to provide food facilities theinformation and resourcesthey need to help protect their workers against COVID-19 infection.”

Groups have advocated for workers in food and agriculture to receive high priority for COVID-19 vaccinations. The FDA is contributing information from its 21向前tool on the estimated numbers and distribution of food and agriculture sector employees who work at FDA-regulated food facilities to Operation Warp Speed’s Tiberius platform, labeled as a "one-stop shop" for data related to vaccine planning, delivery and administration for states and cities.

The effort should ultimately “help target vaccine distribution by providing state and local officials with information to help determine how many food and agriculture workers they have in each county and enabling them to quickly identify where those workers are located,” they explain.

21向前已经用于在热点或热点潜力的热点或地区进行FDA监管食品设施的呼叫,以超越当前的生产状态,是指导是否有帮助,如果他们需要进一步的帮助Foods COVID-19 Technical Assistance Team.

For more, visit the full FDA Voices post:Unleashing the Power of FDA Data to Support COVID-19 Vaccine Distribution to Food and Agriculture Workers

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