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- Guide for public health personnel to investigate reports of foodborne illnesses
- Based on effective epidemiologic principles and investigative techniques for determining causal factors of disease incidence
- User-friendly organization of guidelines
- Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras
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Table of contents (1 chapter)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
About this book
Procedures to Investigate Foodborne Illness is designed to guide public health personnel or teams in any country that investigates reports of alleged foodborne illnesses. The manual is based on epidemiologic principles and investigative techniques that have been found effective in determining causal factors of disease incidence. The guidelines are presented in the sequence usually followed during investigations and are organized so that an investigator can easily find the information needed in any phase of an investigation. Included are descriptions of the following procedures:
- Plan, prepare, investigate and respond to intentional contamination of food
- Handle illness alerts and food-related complaints that may be related to illness
- Interview ill persons, those at risk, and controls
- Develop a case definition
- Collect and ship specimens and food samples
- Conduct hazard analysis (environmental assessments) at sites where foods responsible for outbreaks were produced, processed, or prepared
- Trace sources of contamination
- Identify factors responsible for contamination, survival of pathogenic microorganisms or toxic substances, and/or propagation of pathogens
- Collate and interpret collected data
- Report information about the outbreak
This edition also contains extensively updated and more user-friendly keys to assist investigators in identifying the contributing factors that may lead to the contamination, proliferation or survival of agents of foodborne disease.Â
Authors and Affiliations
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Des Moines, USA
International Association for Food Protection
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Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Procedures to Investigate Foodborne Illness
Authors: International Association for Food Protection
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4419-8396-1
Publisher: Springer New York, NY
eBook Packages: Biomedical and Life Sciences, Biomedical and Life Sciences (R0)
Copyright Information: International Association for Food Protection 2011
Softcover ISBN: 978-1-4419-8395-4Published: 08 July 2011
eBook ISBN: 978-1-4419-8396-1Published: 08 July 2011
Edition Number: 6
Number of Pages: X, 167
Number of Illustrations: 27 b/w illustrations, 20 illustrations in colour
Additional Information: Originally published by International Association for Food Protection, des Moines, IA, USA
Topics: Food Science, Microbiology, Applied Microbiology