New Food-Borne Illness Database
by Matthew Madia, 9/18/2007
The Center for Science in the Public Interest (CSPI) has launched a new database providing information on food-borne illness outbreaks that occurred in the U.S. from 1990-2004. (CSPI defines outbreaks as "events where two or more people become ill from eating the same food.")
The database, "Outbreak Alert!," breaks down over 5,000 outbreaks by food type, pathogen and location. It also lists the number of cases resulting from each outbreak.
Check it out here.
