Attribution of Foodborne Illnesses, Hospitalizations, and Deaths to Food Commodities by using Outbreak Data, United States, 1998–2008
By J. Painter, R. Hoekstra, T. Ayers, R. Tauxe, C. Braden, F. Angulo, P. Griffin. Emerging Infectious Diseases, 2013
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Each year, >9 million foodborne illnesses are estimated to be caused by major pathogens acquired in the United States. Preventing these illnesses is challenging because resources are limited and linking individual illnesses to a particular food is rarely possible except during an outbreak. We developed a method of attributing illnesses to food commodities that uses data from outbreaks associated with both simple and complex foods. Using data from outbreak-associated illnesses for 1998–2008, we estimated annual US foodborne illnesses, hospitalizations, and deaths attributable to each of 17 food commodities. We attributed 46% of illnesses to produce and found that more deaths were attributed to poultry than to any other commodity. To the extent that these estimates reflect the commodities causing all foodborne illness, they indicate that efforts are particularly needed to prevent contamination of produce and poultry. Methods to incorporate data from other sources are needed to improve attribution estimates for some commodities and agents.
Subfields: Agronomy and Crop Science, Food Science
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- The Safe Food Imperative: Accelerating Progress in Low- and Middle-Income Countries (2018, background): “In some Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development countries, animal products were estimated to account for half or more of the burden of FBD, as in studies of the United States (Painter et al. 2013) and the United Kingdom (Tam et al.”
- Contamination of water resources by pathogenic bacteria (2014, background): “Painter et al. (2013) reported that produce accounted for nearly half of food-borne illnesses in the U.S. between 1998 and 2008.”