Links on Risk

Foodborne Illness:

General Info:

FoodSafety.gov This portal is hosted by the FDA, but provides access to MANY private, academic and state resources as well as to ALL the Federal programs working on food safety. It is often the easiest way to get to government info.

Food Safety Information From North Carolina State A good gateway site, including extensive links on "organisms of concern" and a kid's section.

Foodsafe Listserv & Information Center This is an online e-mail discussion group on food safety. Commercial messages prohibited. The site also has a searchable database & an extensive index of sites.

FSnet An invaluable daily compilation of food safety news, produced by the University of Guelph (in Canada). The archive has the sign-up for their daily e-mail posting.

Pathogens

Center for Food Safety & Applied Nutrition (CFSAN), The Bad Bug Book: Foodborne pathogenic microorganisms and natural toxins handbook. Washington, DC: FDA, 1998. http://vm.cfsan.fda.gov/~mow/intro.html

Centers for Disease Control & Prevention (CDC), Foodborne Illnesses
http://www.cdc.gov/health/foodill.htm

CDC: Viral Hepatitis A – A Fact Sheet. http://www.cdc.gov/ncidod/diseases/hepatitis/a/fact.htm

CDC "Norwalk-Like Viruses" - Public Health Consequences and Outbreak Management
MMWR, June 01, 2001 / 50(RR09); 1-18
http://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/preview/mmwrhtml/rr5009a1.htm

Statistics

Mead, Paul S. et al, “Food-related Illness and death in the United States.” Emerging Infectious Diseases 5:5, 607-625. Sept-Oct 1999. http://www.cdc.gov/ncidod/eid/vol5no5/mead.htm

CDC, Surveillance for Foodborne Disease Outbreaks --- United States, 1993-1997 http://www.cdc.gov/ncidod/dbmd/outbreak/us_outb.htm

CDC, Surveillance for Foodborne-Disease Outbreaks -- United States, 1988-1992
http://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/preview/mmwrhtml/00044241.htm

Foodnet (CDC): Foodborne Diseases Active Surveillance Network & Emerging Infections Program http://www.cdc.gov/foodnet/

Risk Management

Risk Management Magazine, http://www.rmmag.com/

Glossary of Insurance terms http://www.ucalgary.ca/MG/inrm/glossary/index.htm