After many months of work the new FoodOn farm to fork food ontology Alpha has been launched on GitHub at: http://foodontology.github.io/foodon. This ontology feeds into GenEpiO in a few ways – by providing lists of plant and animal foods implicated in outbreaks or for routine sampling, as well as more detailed descriptors about how food products are preserved, cooked, or otherwise handled.

The GenEpiO Project website has been launched! The site aims to provide a focal point for information about the GenEpiO project and associated GenEpiO consortium information. We look forward to working with all consortium members.