Food-Borne Illness

System finds outbreaks sooner, faster

Published in Health and Medicine Week, August 15th, 2005

If 25 people eating at a single banquet hall became sick and needed hospitalization, determining the cause could be as easy as checking the dinner menu. But if those same people were scattered across 20 states and became ill after eating food processed at a single site, identifying the link could be impossible.

Hence the development of FoodNet, a program implemented by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention to collect and analyze cases of foodborne illness, such as salmonella and E. coli outbreaks.

Since 1996, FoodNet has led to a 42% decrease in salmonella infections and 40% reduction in Listeria infections, reported...

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Source: Health and Medicine Week (2005-08-15)

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