A public health advocacy group is pressing the Food and Drug Administration to name more companies and brand names associated with foodborne illness outbreaks by reinterpreting the law or amending the agency’s regulations.
In a petition filed Thursday and shared exclusively with Bloomberg Law, nonprofit STOP Foodborne Illness encouraged the FDA to change its legal interpretation of trade secrets and name any foodmaker linked to an outbreak, even absent a product recall.
Under current policy, FDA considers company and brand names “confidential commercial information” and only discloses them if recalling a product associated with a food illness outbreak. STOP argues, ...