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Search results for "foodborne diseases" ...
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Fatal Food
"Using files from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Scripps Howard News Service studied how effectively state health departments detect and diagnose the causes of food-borne illnesses outbreaks." A wide range of results were found. Some states were nearly perfect while others were oblivious to the connection between food sickness and outbreaks of diseases.
Tags: food borne illness; outbreaks; Centers for Disease Control and Prevention; CDCP; state health departments; diagnoising;
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Who's watching over Kansas City's restaurants?
The Kansas City Star reports on severe sanitation problems at city's restaurants. The investigation main findings include that roughly 800 food establishments had gone a year or more without routine inspection; the inspection staff is generally inexperienced and poorly paid; the city food code lacks serious financial penalties and is based on 25-year-old federal standards many other cities abandoned years ago. The stories document about 20,000 food code violations discovered by city inspectors from 1996 to 1999. In some instances, inspectors ignored sanitation problems that could have led to closing of a restaurant.
Tags: food code; foodborne diseases; sanitation; diners; safety; public health; FDA; Center for Food Safety and Applied Nutrition; CAR