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Understanding Foodborne Disease Outbreaks Using Environmental Assessments
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Apr 16, 2008
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Description:Presented at the International Conference on Emerging Infectious Disease Annual Meeting, Atlanta, GA March 16-19, 2008
Introduction Foodborne disease surveillance is an essential component of a food safety program (Todd, et al.1997). Surveillance information is used to determine the need for food-safety actions, which involves planning and implementing programs and assessing the effectiveness of the actions taken (Todd et al. 1997). Foodborne outbreak investigations represent one aspect of the overall foodborne disease surveillance system. The environmental assessments of these investigations provide food safety programs with a significant opportunity to better understand contributing factors and the environmental antecedents central to the occurrence of those factors. While contributing factors such as workers who work while ill, poor hand washing practices and time temperature abuse of foods are sometimes reported to CDC via the Foodborne Disease Outbreak Surveillance System, these factors are not framed in the context within which they occurred. The complexity of food handling processes utilized in an establishment, number of meals served versus number of managers, language abilities of managers and workers, cleaning policies and practices, availability of sick leave, hand sink availability and other characteristics are potential antecedents and provide a meaningful context for contributing factors. A complete picture of the foodservice establishments involved in foodborne outbreaks can help identify those factors that can be routinely monitored by food safety programs to prevent or reduce the risk of foodborne outbreaks associated with food-service establishments. This poster highlights some of the findings of this study related to the characteristics, policies, and practices of foodservice establishments involved in foodborne outbreaks in the EHS-Net catchment area from June 2006 to September 2007. The information collected from these assessments provides a first look at a number of establishment characteristics that are rarely captured in a systematic way or considered as potential antecedents to foodborne outbreaks.
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Content Notes:Disease Outbreaks
Food Contamination
Food Safety
Foodborne Diseases/epidemiology
Sentinel Surveillance
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