Efforts led by the World Health Organization (WHO) to update estimates on the burden of foodborne infections continue progressing, with publication expected next year.
In a webinar organized by the European Burden of Disease Network, two speakers shared insights into work by the Foodborne Disease Burden Epidemiology Reference Group (FERG).
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Researchers in Denmark have shared lessons learned as part of work on national burden of disease estimates.
The Danish burden of foodborne disease study ranks pathogens and chemicals. Results from 2019 showed the top hazards were Campylobacter, lead, peanut allergy, methylmercury, and Salmonella.
National studies are helpful for risk ranking and
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Researchers have assessed the role of certain food types in causing illness from different pathogens in three African countries.
They presented attribution estimates for Campylobacter, enterotoxigenic E. coli (ETEC), Shiga-toxin producing E. coli, Salmonella, Cryptosporidium, Brucella, and Mycobacterium bovis for beef, dairy, poultry and vegetable products in Burkina Faso, Ethiopia and Rwanda.
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The World Health Organization (WHO) has called for help as part of work to estimate the burden of foodborne disease.
WHO is seeking support from independent consultants or groups of experts with relevant experience to undertake systematic reviews and other studies on foodborne illness. The process is part of collecting
Continue Reading WHO wants help to estimate foodborne disease burdenTwo months ago, when the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention released revised estimates of foodborne illness in the United States, plenty of people tried to put a positive spin on the long-awaited analysis.
Even though CDC experts cautioned against comparing the old estimates with the new to discern a
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I’ve always been a numbers guy. I am not talking about mathematics, but just plain numbers.
I do still wake up at night occasionally thinking I have a college algebra or calculus test in the morning. But that’s math.
At some point I took an aptitude test and learned
Wednesday’s release of the new Centers for Disease Control and Prevention estimates on foodborne illness in the U.S., which are significantly lower than the oft-cited decade-old estimates, left many in the food policy community wondering about the timing of the report.
Just two weeks ago, lawmakers were citing the now-obsolete
Continue Reading Why now? Was CDC’s Timing on Estimates Political?
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has released a new, lower estimate of the overall public health burden of foodborne illness in the United States. CDC now says food poisoning sickens 1 in 6 Americans each year, not 1 in 4 as the agency had estimated in 1999.
According
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Seventy-six million people Americans sick with foodborne illness, 323,000 hospitalizations, 5,200 deaths.
Those grim numbers have been bandied about the Internet, the popular media, and more recently around congressional hearing rooms – like unemployment rates or major league batting averages. Public health advocates have cited them repeatedly while trying
