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  • Preliminary FoodNet Data on the Incidence of Foodborne Illnesses --- Selected Sites, United States, 2001
  • Preliminary FoodNet Data on the Incidence of Foodborne Illnesses - Selected Sites, United States, 2000 April 6, 2001 / 50(13); 241-6
  • Food-Related Illness and Death in the United States Latest estimates, published September, 1999
  • Surveillance for Foodborne-Disease Outbreaks --- United States, 1993--1997 March 17, 2000 / Vol. 49 / No. SS-01
  • Surveillance for Foodborne-Disease Outbreaks --- United States, 1988--1992 October 25, 1996 / Vol. 45 / No. SS-05
  • Epi Info 2000 - Free downloadable software program for epidemiologists and other health and medical professionals
  • bullet Economic Research Service (USDA)
  • Cost of Foodborne Illness Slide Show
  • Bacterial Foodborne Disease: Medical Costs and Productivity Losses August 1996
  • An Economic Assessment of Food Safety Regulations July 1997
  • bullet Food and Drug Administration (FDA)
  • Outbreaks Caused by Food Workers, 1975-1998 A literature review pertaining to foodborne disease (see Section One)
  • bullet International Foodborne Illness Statistics
  • Communicable Diseases - Australia
  • Disease Surveillance On-line from Health Canada Health Protection Branch - Laboratory Centre for Disease Control
  • Communicable Disease Surveillance Centre (CDSC) - Enteric Diseases from England and Wales
  • EpiNorth Notification of Communicable Diseases in the Baltic Sea and Barents Region
  • EuroSurveillance
  • Foodborne Illness Statistics from Food Safety Authority of Ireland
  • Gastroenteritis Monitor - Denmark from Department of Gastrointestinal Infections, Statens Serum Institut, Copenhagen, Denmark
  • Infectious Disease Surveillance Center from National Institute of Infectious Diseases, Japan
  • SIRVETA - Central and South American Statistics
  • WHO Surveillance Programme For Control of Foodborne Infections and Intoxications in Europe 7th Report, 1993-1998
  • bullet Sentinel Site Study (FoodNet) from FSIS/CDC/FDA
  • CDC FoodNet site. Includes quarterly newsletter, The Catchment
  • USDA FSIS FoodNet information
  • Non-Government Sites
    bullet Center for Science in the Public Interest
  • Outbreak Alert! Closing the Gaps in Our Federal Food-Safety Net (2002) [PDF]
  • Outbreak Alert! Closing the Gaps in Our Federal Food-Safety Net (2001) [PDF]
  • bullet Audits International
  • 1999 Home Food Safety Survey
  • 2000 Home Food Safety Survey

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