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Foodborne Illness Complaint Systems Detect, and Restaurant Inspection Programs Prevent Restaurant-Associated Foodborne Illness Outbreaks.
Foodborne Pathogens and Disease 2023 November 22
Restaurants are important settings for foodborne illness transmission. Environmental health agencies routinely inspect restaurants to assess compliance with food safety regulations. They also evaluate foodborne illness complaints from consumers to detect potential outbreaks of foodborne illness. Local environmental health agencies were surveyed to identify methods used to conduct surveillance for consumer complaints of foodborne illness, link them to inspection grading and disclosure practices, and evaluate the association between these practices and the number of foodborne illness outbreaks in restaurant settings reported to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. We developed a novel framework for assessing the effectiveness of restaurant inspection grading and disclosure of inspection results while accounting for any biases introduced by surveillance factors that affect outbreak detection. Our findings showed the importance of routine restaurant inspection grading and disclosure practices as prevention measures and having a centralized database to manage consumer complaints as a useful surveillance tool for detecting outbreaks. Improving consumer complaint system structure and management can bolster outbreak detection and maximize limited public health resources while increasing the efficiency of complaint-based surveillance.
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