Foodborne Illness Acquired in the United States—Unspecified Agents

By E. Scallan, P. Griffin, F. Angulo, R. Tauxe, R. Hoekstra. Emerging Infectious Diseases, 2011

1,022 citations recorded by the source corpus.

Each year, unspecified agents caused an estimated 38.4 million episodes of illness, resulting in 71,878 hospitalizations and 1,686 deaths.

Subfields: Food Science, Infectious Diseases

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In Food Science

1. T. Bintsis
2. Moisés A. Resende-Filho
3. R. Holley
4. A. Olaimat
5. T. Hurley

In Infectious Diseases

1. T. Bintsis

Citations in the corpus

• Foodborne pathogens (2017, background): “7% of foodborne illness among the 31 major pathogens in the US [13,14].”
• Factors influencing the microbial safety of fresh produce: a review. (2012, background): “An updated estimate of yearly foodborne illnesses in the United States by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) concluded that about 48 million persons acquire foodborne illnesses with 128,000 hospitalization and 3000 deaths each year (Scallan et al., 2011).”
• Economic burden from health losses due to foodborne illness in the United States. (2012, background): “(14, 15) clearly affected the predicted number of illnesses from foodborne sources.”
• World Health Organization Estimates of the Global and Regional Disease Burden of 22 Foodborne Bacterial, Protozoal, and Viral Diseases, 2010: A Data Synthesis (2015, neutral): “The first approach, based on national estimates of the incidence of foodborne diseases from seven studies published between 2005 – 2014, was applied to the 61 countries in low-mortality (European Region (EUR) and other subregion A [27]) countries [3,28 – 35].”
• Foodborne Illness Acquired in the United States—Major Pathogens (2011, neutral): “This article provides estimates of major known pathogens; the other provides estimates for agents of acute gastroenteritis not specified in this article.[4]”
• Information asymmetry and traceability incentives for food safety (2012, background): “are caused by unspecified agents like chemicals and other substances known to be in food but whose ability to cause illness is unproven, resulting in 71,878 hospitalizations and 1686 deaths (Scallan et al., 2011).”
• Foodborne Illness Acquired in the United States (2011, neutral): “In Response: We welcome the suggestions by Hedberg (1) and Johnson (2) on how future estimates of foodborne illness in the United States could be improved (3,4).”