Since 1999 the FBVE network has maintained a joint database in which members have shared their data.
First a joint database was made for foodborne outbreaks caused by different viruses. In 2008, using new software, seperate databases were set up for different pathogens, of which the norovirus en hepatitis A database are available on the web.

The Norovirus sequences can be searched and compared to new sequences by the network members at the sequence database (participants only).

A public sequence database displaying a subset of the norovirus data is also available. 

A similar dataset has been set up with a smaller group of countries, within the FBVE network for Hepatitis A (participants only).

Besides these password protected databases the FBVE network maintains a public typing tool.

The investigation of outbreaks may be limited due to the high numbers of outbreaks reported to a Public Health institution. In order to increase the success-rate of identifying a food-borne source of infection, a transmission mode distinguishing tool (189Kb) was built based on FBVE data as part of a publication.