ANFS102 Lecture Notes - Lecture 13: Zoonosis, Dna Profiling, Food Safety
20 Mar 2019
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During an investigation, health officials collect three types of data. Patterns in where and when people got sick, and past outbreaks caused by the same germ. Interviews with sick people to look for foods or other exposures occurring more often than expected. Discovery of clusters of unregulated sick people who ate at the same restaurant, shopped at the same grocery store, or attended the same event. A common point of contamination in the distribution chain from farm to fork, identified by reviewing records collected from restaurants or stores where stick people ate or shopped. Inspections in food production facilities, on farms and in restaurants that identify food safety risks. The germ that caused illness is found in a food item collected from a sick person"s home, a retail location or on the food production environment. The same dna fingerprint linking germs found in foods or production environments to germs found in sick people.
