Food Safety Threats

Websites

• Food Safety Threats (CDC)

Fact Sheets

• Botulism (see Botulism Page)
• Cholera (CDC)
• Cholera (CFSPH)
• Escherichia coli O157:H7 (CDC)
• Escherichia coli 0157:H7 Infections (CFSPH)
• Salmonellosis (CDC)
• Salmonellosis (nontyphoidal) (CFSPH)
• Shigellosis (CDC)
• Typhoid Fever (CDC)

Review / Summary Information

• Diagnosis and Management of Foodborne Illnesses: A Primer for Physicians (CDC)
• Diagnosis and management of foodborne illnesses: A primer for physicians and other health care professionals (AMA)
• Medical Aspects of Biological Warfare: Food, Waterborne, and Agricultural Diseases (Office of the Surgeon General, Dept of the Army)
• Threat of a biological terrorist attack on the US food supply: the CDC perspective (Lancet)

Laboratory Testing

• Microbiology: Enteric Bacteriology Laboratory (DHSS)
• Microbiology: Parasitology Laboratory (DHSS)

Public Health Response

• Communicable Disease Investigation Reference Manual (DHSS)

Other Information

• Food Safety for First Responders (EID)