What does the Global Foodborne Infections Network entail?
The Global Foodborne Infections Network has six main programme components: international training activities, the External Quality Assurance System (EQAS), the WHO Global Salmonella Country Databank, focused regional and national projects, reference services and communication. The major programme component is the international training courses. The Global Foodborne Infections Network conducts training courses at 17 sites around the world. Typically, 30-40 participants from 10-12 countries attend each week-long training course. Courses are basic, intermediate or advanced and cover a wide range of foodborne disease topics depending on the skills needed in each region. To date, more than 80 countries have provided data to the Country Databank on around 1.5 million human isolates and 360 000 isolates from nonhuman sources to help provide a global overview of the epidemiology of Salmonella. The External Quality Assurance System of the Global Foodborne Infections Network is one of the world’
