MINNEAPOLIS, Minn. — Federal funding shortfalls have stalled the Center for Disease Control and Prevention's (CDC's) progress on establishing five centers of excellence that were included in the 2011 Food Safety Modernization Act (FSMA), according to a report from the Center for Infectious Disease Research & Policy at the University of Minnesota.
Dr. Craig Hedberg, a food safety expert at the University of Minnesota's School of Public Health, said the CDC had appointed an independent working group to help the agency establish the criteria for evaluating the centers in advance of announcing a funding opportunity. However, the CDC. . .