MINNESOTA: State models cited as ways to improve outbreak responses - (CIDRAP)
July 31, 2008 – 10:39 pmExperts and industry leaders speaking at congressional hearings this week on the nationwide Salmonella outbreak said federal agencies should take cues from state programs if they want to improve the traceability of fresh produce and the success of foodborne disease outbreak investigations.
At a House subcommittee hearing yesterday, a Minnesota expert said investigations of multistate foodborne disease outbreaks are hindered by a lack of standardized techniques and approaches from state to state. The expert, Michael T. Osterholm, PhD, MPH, proposed that other states adopt a set of best practices like those used by the Minnesota Department of Health (MDH), which played a major role in linking the Salmonella cases to jalapeno peppers early in July.
Osterholm, who is director of the University of Minnesota Center for Infectious Disease Research and Policy, publisher of CIDRAP News, also proposed the establishment of regional surveillance teams or a national surveillance team patterned after teams used […]
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