ADVANCEMENT OF THE PRACTICE
About the Author: Jack Guzewich retired from the Center for Food Safety and Applied Nutrition (CFSAN) within the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) in August 2011. He was a senior advisor for environmental health in the Oce of Food Defense, Com- munication, and Emergency Response. He worked on several special projects, includ-
ing enhancing relations with federal, state, and local government partners; CFSAN’s produce safety initiative; the Council to Improve Foodborne Outbreak Response (CIFOR); and the implementation of envi- ronmental assessments at FDA. Before work- ing at CFSAN, Guzewich previously worked for the New York State Department of
Health, where he was the lead for foodborne disease outbreak surveillance and food ser- vice establishment regulation, as well as the training officer for environmental health staff in the state. He is a well-known and respected figure in food safety.
Contact: johnguzewich@gmail.com
References
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. (2024a). About the National Outbreak Reporting System (NORS) . https://www.cdc.gov/ nors/about/index.html Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. (2024b). Restaurant food safety: Research partners . https://www.cdc.gov/restaurant- food-safety/php/practices/research-partners.html
Holst, M.M., Wittry, B.C., Crisp, C., Torres, J., Irving, D.J., & Nicholas, D. (2025). Contributing factors of foodborne illness outbreaks— National Outbreak Reporting System, United States, 2014–2022. Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report, Surveillance Summaries , 74 (SS-1), 1–12. https://doi.org/10.15585/mmwr.ss7401a1 Integrated Food Safety Centers of Excellence. (2025). Outbreak root cause learning lab . https://foodsafetycoe.org/product/10368/
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