Procedures to Investigate Foodborne Illness

This revised Sixth edition of Procedures to Investigate Foodborne Ilness is designed to guide public health personnel or teams in any country that investigates reports of alleged foodborne illnesses. It is a companion to another manual published by the IAFP, Procedures to Investigate Waterborne Illness. These two manuals are based on epidemiologic principles and investigative techniques that have been found effective in determining causal factors of disease incidence. This edition describes procedures to: - 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 snip specimens and samples, - Conduct hazard analysis at sites where foods responsible for outbreaks were produced, processed, or prepared, - Trace sources of contamination, - Collate and interpret collected data, - Report information