Field Guide to Identifying Root Causes

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• Corporate Authors:
  National Center for Environmental Health (U.S.)
• Description:
  Outbreak investigators can look at clues and ask questions to identify root causes of outbreaks.
  
  Root causes of outbreaks are the reasons outbreaks occur. They are also called environmental antecedents.
  
  Use this guide when investigating outbreaks linked with restaurants and other retail food establishments. Keep in mind, to find the root cause of the outbreak you are looking for the specific practices and factors that contributed to it. These are not always the same as inspection violations.
  
  Each outbreak is unique. The examples and antecedents included in this reference do not include everything that can happen in an outbreak. Rather, they provide vide a starting point for considering questions, observations, and evidence to help identify environmental antecedents.
  
  In this guide, we use the terms “facility” and “establishment” interchangeably. Both refer to a retail food establishment.
  
  333861-C
  
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  field-guide-to-identifying-root-causes-508.pdf
  
  
• Content Notes:
  People -- Equipment -- Economics -- Process -- Food.
• Subjects:
  Disease Outbreaks Foodborne Diseases
• Document Type:
  Pamphlet (or booklet)
• Pages in Document:
  9 numbered pages
• Collection(s):
  Stephen B. Thacker CDC Library
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  urn:sha256:6a55fcc5e8535bfeddc85792b332c6e839c69622d67b77d4b70cd6938c557e16
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