Health officials monitor and investigate food-borne illness in a number of ways. Surveillance is used to track trends in the incidence of several common bacterial and parasitic food-borne illnesses. Tracking of outbreaks of food-borne illness helps improve approaches to investigation. Genetic fingerprinting is also used to identify infections from a common source, including large multistate outbreaks. Collectively, these tools shed light on the burden of food-borne illness in the U.S., and ways to decrease it. This book examines several systems to monitor food-borne illnesses, discussing their strengths and the gaps that remain in understanding the burden of food-borne illness in the United States, with a focus on E. coli and salmonella.
Preface; Food Safety:: Foodborne Illness & Selected Recalls of FDA-Regulated Foods; Food Safety:: Federal & State Response to the Spinach E.coli Outbreak; Frequently Asked Questions about Escherichia coli O157::H7 & other Shiga Toxin-Producing Escherichia coli (STEC); Recommendations for Diagnosis of Shiga Toxin-Producing Escherichia coli Infections by Clinical Laboratories; (Morbidity & Mortality Weekly Report); Peanut Outlook:: Impacts of the 2008-2009 Foodborne Illness Outbreak Linked to Salmonella in Peanuts; Index.
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