The IRE Resource Center is a major research library containing more than 23,250 investigative stories — both print and broadcast. Add to that more than 3,000 tipsheets from our national conferences on how to cover specific beats or do specific stories and you have a resource that no reporter or editor should be without. These stories and tipsheets are searchable online or by contacting the Resource Center directly (573-882-3364 or rescntr@ire.org) where a researcher can help you pinpoint what you need. Browse or search the tipsheet section of our library below. Logged-in members can view the tipsheets free online:
Search results for "food poisoning" ...
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Doing your own laboratory testing
Katches, Roe and Barry's tipsheet offers extensive guidance for conducting investigations that involve laboratory testing. The suggestions aim to ensure validity of scientific investigations and make them as affordable, efficient and useful as possible. Katches, Roe and Barry each have conducted award-winning investigations using laboratories.
Tags: science; laboratories; mercury; pollution; toxic waste; dumping; lead poisoning
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How Safe is Your Food? How to report on food safety and restaurant inspections
This tipsheet is a good guide to investigating food safety. The authors begin by offering tips like "get multiple years of data." Each tip is accompanied by a detailed explanation backed up with the authors' own experience. Then, the tipsheet ends with advice about building a database of restaurant inspections. The authors share their own experience doing this and offer a lot of suggestions to make the database efficient and effective.
Tags: restaurant; food poisoning; city government; food inspectors; FDA; state government; public health and safety
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Tipsheet No: 376
Dates, number of cases, fatalities, contamination sources and locations of E. coli 0157: H7 outbreaks/clusters in the United States from 1982 to 1994 are listed. Included is a short introduction explaining why these outbreaks may or may not be reported to the Center for Disease Control.
Tags: Infections; Beef; Health Departments; Food Contamination Food Poisoning; Health