PulseNet: A Critical Food Safety Surveillance System

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• Corporate Authors:
  Association of Public Health Laboratories (U.S.) ; Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (U.S.)
• Description:
  Public health laboratorians are critical to the detection and prevention of foodborne illnesses. Through a national laboratory-based foodborne disease surveillance network known as PulseNet, public health and agricultural laboratories have detected high-profile outbreaks such as those from imported produce, peanut butter and peanut butter-containing products and raw cookie dough.
  
  This issue brief was supported in part by Cooperative Agreement Number U60/CCU33019 from CDC. Its contents are solely the responsibility of the authors and do not necessarily represent the official views of CDC.
  
  FS_2010April_IssueBriefPulseNet.pdf
  
  
• Subjects:
  Disease Outbreaks/prevention & Control Electrophoresis, Gel, Pulsed-Field Foodborne Diseases/prevention & Control Food Contamination Food Satety Laboratories Public Health Surveillance Whole Genome Sequencing
• Series:
  PulseNet News
• Document Type:
  Text
• Funding:
  Cooperative Agreement Number U60/CCU33019
• Name as Subject:
  PulseNet
• Genre:
  Fact Sheet
• Pages in Document:
  7 numbered pages
• Collection(s):
  Stephen B. Thacker CDC Library
• Main Document Checksum:
  urn:sha-512:4b3bb015dc8ace749b12cef97103718df4793b9fa858d8dcb22201a8540c9c4e9770905e5fa7660aacf1f39731ae30cb7bc02136018e6839a62fdf02c95a1443
• Download URL:
  https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/117928/cdc_117928_DS1.pdf
• File Type:
  [PDF - 2.14 MB ]