Source and date of request Following an urgent inquiry related to the outbreak of S. Stanley launched by Austria on 8 April 2014, ECDC and EFSA agreed on 16 April 2014 to update their earlier rapid outbreak assessment entitled ‘Multi-country outbreak of Salmonella Stanley infections’, originally published on 21 September 2012. A related request from the European Commission is tagged ‘EFSA-Q-2014-00315’